Firebird related news
Oracle has last year's report as well, with even more detail. It shows Borland as a quickly growing database company, riding the FB/IB success wave. It's database sales are closely tracking MySQL, with 2004 sales already at the $9 million mark.
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Open source databases are showing the highest growth rate in the database market, according to a new study by analyst firm Gartner.
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EMS Software Development is pleased to announce new version of Data Pump 2006 for InterBase/Firebird – the powerful tool to convert databases and import table data from an ADO-compatible sources to Firebird and InterBase databases! You can download the newest version of EMS Data Pump 2006 for InterBase/Firebird from the download page. |
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EMS Company is pleased to announce new version of Advanced Data Import – Component Suite for Borland Delphi and C++ Builder, that will allow you to import your data to the database from files in the most popular data formats: MS Excel, MS Access, DBF, XML, TXT and CSV. The newest version is available at the download page. |
Morfik developed the breakthrough web app RAD tool, WebOS. WebOS generates AJAX web applications in an environment that resembles Delphi C/S development. It uses Firebird as its DB server. One important part of its technology is “JST”, a javascript compiler. Google has released a similar technology, perhaps licensed from Morfik.
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An alternative to cvs/subversion for delphi users, what is interesting about it ? you can install it on an firebird server or use the firebird 1.5.x ebedded included in the JCVS app server setup (you can read the release notes)
Read more (in portuguese) at www.delphiman.com.br/bl…
[I agree with the open source databases vs mssql part, if you look at netcraft or browser stats: apache and firefox are growing stronger than the other side (dark side), so it happens in the db space]
10.MySQL / PostgrSQL / Firebird threatens MS SQL Server. SQL Server is the one division that showed a modest profit in 2004, but many database professionals are switching Open Source alternatives. Even though sales for SQL Server is growing, it is growing at a slower rate than the overall market.
Read more at toorg.blogspot.com/2006…
Today we are closing the “What is you main language used with FB?“. The survey got 1,268 answers, and the final result can be viewed here.
Delphi is the winner with 65% of the votes, followed by Java and PHP (both with 7%) and C# with 6%.
Now you can vote in our new poll (check it at the sidebar).
You can read the details on the fundation’s blog
From Dmitry Yemanov – The remote protocol has been slightly improved to perform better in slow networks. In order to achieve this, more advanced packets batching is now performed, also there are some buffer transmission optimizations. In a real world test scenario, these changes showed about 50% less API roundtrips, thus causing about 40% less TCP roundtrips. Hopefully, this is an improvement some our users could benefit from (mostly it should affect over-the-internet database access).
This work has been committed into the HEAD branch to be included into the next Firebird version. Further protocol improvements are also planned.
