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Active Database Software announces today the release of Active Query Builder 1.6, a suite of robust and feature-rich .NET-ready ActiveX and VCL components, which allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries via the intuitive visual interface. |
Active Query Builder features:
We are looking for a database developer to work on two related large scale utility radio telemetry projects.
The development uses the Firebird (Interbase) database on a Linux platform with a web based user interface.
The system connects large numbers of remote telemetry units with the database using custom radio hardware and communications
Read More about the job description and system
New site for firebird users in Chile www.firebird.cl, Powered by bitweaver and firebird.
News via firebird.com.mx
I accidentally dropped the db that was used by FBTalk.net [ED:that is why it didn’t worked friday and gave some connection errors], this has now been
restored and http://www.FBTalk.net is now back up and running 🙂
Rgds
Si Carter
Vote for Marina Novikova (Attention: her NUMBER is 475), from DevRace and InterBaseWorld, so she can win the Surf contest! Right now she is in the 2nd place! More information here.
here is the article about the new 16 cores mips cpu , On cnet there is an picture with full server built around that cpu [it might work with firebird on linux mips ]
ps: anyone with an ultrasparc t1 (niagara) based system and linux loaded on it?
Here are some rants about oracle, linux and oss databases
Will Oracle ever befriend Linux and actually prove that something can be given in return? At present, Oracle competes with and destroys some of the business that MySQL, Firebird, and PostgreSQL have conquered with Linux and pure Open Source software.
Dear friends!
Please VOTE for me (Marina Novikova) at the contest (Attention: my NUMBER is 475). The voting will end this Sunday, every vote is very important (now I am second, 400 votes to the leader).
You can read about my website InterBase World .
Please VOTE for me (Marina Novikova) and I will have a chance to win a 2-week trip to the surf-riding school in Indonesia, Bali.
While SAP has no designs to be a database vendor—it tried and failed with MaxDB, which is now part of the MySQL community—sources close to the company have suggested that SAP could be working on a hybrid approach or something similar. “Basically there is no reason SAP couldn’t work with IBM and others on making [in-memory] work well on hardware,” said a source close to the company who requested anonymity. “Probably that’s the company that would be the most benefited. The vendor that [it] would be most disruptive for would be Oracle.”
Read full article here.
EdNote: Would Firebird be a good candidate?
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