mojoPortal 2.2.3.4 Release
I’m happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.2.3.4, its available now on the download page. [ED:with automatic schema creation and upgrade working in Firebird]
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Devrace announce availability of BlazeTop version 1.8.0.125
Devrace announce availability of BlazeTop version 1.8.0.125 with 11
new features and 6 bug fixes.
BlazeTop (former SQLHammer), a tool for database development and administration. Its highly effective ideology has been elaborated due to close cooperation with professional database developers and administrators. It mainly uses a module model similar to that of Delphi/C++Builder, and thus its interface is absolutely handy for its users. BlazeTop architecture is based on component and dynamic module style that enables us to support different database servers and engines. The current BlazeTop version supports Borland InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil
osFinancials RC5 for version 2.0 available
The development team does believe we are hitting this 2.0 series in a short time from now, expected around the 1sth of September.
In the meantime we encourage you to test this RC5 version to the limit and report any defect found to the bug tracker so we are able to address your found defect.
MySQL Takes Another Step (Away from Open Source)
In the ongoing effort to convert more users into paying customers, MySQL announced today that they are no longer making the source code tarball for their Enterprise server publicly available. You could see this coming from a million miles away.
http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2007/08/mysql-takes-another-step-away-from-open-source.html [ED: so this could be more space for firebird in open source enterprise area]
US$ 1.3K donated to Firebird Foundation
Firebird – double winner of SourceForget Community Awards!
From InfoWorld:
SourceForge unveils the winners of the ‘open-source Oscars’
“…The Firebird relational database was another double winner, being voted both best project for the enterprise and the project providing the best user support.”
Congratulations for all who made this possible: The Firebird Project and all the people who voted!
Read full article here.
Thread of the day in FB2: embedded server as network client not possible
I read in the FB 2 release notes:
“In Firebird 2.0, use of the embedded server as a network client is no
longer possible.”
The World’s Largest Firebird Gathering
This Saturday the 4th Firebird Developer’s Day brought together about 600 Firebird users who attended 14 different sessions. Among the speakers were Holger Klemt, owner of H-K software (IBExpert), Nikolay Samofatov, CTO of Red Soft and Dmitri Kouzmenko, Director of IBase.ru and CEO of IBSurgeon.
Keeping with the tradition of having over 500 attendees Firebird Developer’s Day, in Brazil, continues to be the largest gathering of Firebird users in the world.
Firebird Maestro 7.7 released
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.7, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version features:
- Unicode/UTF-8 data management.
- Since this version Firebird Maestro works fine with embedded Firebird server.
- Transaction Browser is implemented (Firebird 2.1). This feature is very useful for DBAs who want to monitor the users’ activity.
- Support of database triggers from Firebird 2.1 is added to the software.
- Database Designer: a possibility of locking/unlocking diagram objects is added.
- It is now possible to execute SQL scripts after connect and before disconnect to/from a database.
There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4443/
waiting for the firebird storm
Storm is an object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python developed at Canonical. The project has been in development for more than a year for use in Canonical projects such as [WWW] Launchpad, and has recently been released as an open-source product.
Who knows maybe an firebird port will be made for it