Category: General news

From the Sweet Mother of Databases dept.:The code for the Falcon Storage Engine for MySQL has been released as open source. Jim Starkey, known as the father of Interbase, is behind its creation; previously he was involved with the Firebird SQL database project.

article on slashdot via osdir.com

Pre-release builds of a release candidate for Firebird 1.5.4 are ready for testing.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes
Changes:Only two updates were made compared to 1.1.8

This time with new articles

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:This release includes a long list of feature improvements and bugfixes. A new embedded recovery log has been implemented for a transactional log without configuration. New demos are based on these new features. Other usability improvements and performance enhancements are also part of this release.

an interesting thread on http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5119208

First beta version of libgda/libgnomedb (version 2.99.2) have been released.

Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic(tm)

This component allows you to access Firebird databases.
Homepage: http://gambas.sourceforge.net

Jim Starkey wrote on the Firebird-Architect mailing list:

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