New firebird sponsors from :Russia, Japan and Brazil
You can read the details on the fundation’s blog
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Improved remote protocol
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.
EMS Data Export 2007 is now available!
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EMS Company is pleased to announce You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/dataexport/download |
“Free” Databases: Express vs. Open-Source RDBMSs
Open-source databases are gaining IT mindshare at a rapid pace. As an example, BusinessWeek‘s February 6, 2006 “Taking On the Database Giants” article asks “Can open-source upstarts compete with Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft?” and then provides the answer: “It’s an uphill battle, but customers are starting to look at the alternatives.”
Read more on the OakLeaf Systems blog
Updated Downloads at dotnetfirebird.org
I’ve updated the downloads page to show the most recent versions:
- Firebird Server for Windows 1.5.3
- Firebird Embedded for Windows 1.5.3
- Firebird Server for Windows 2 RC1
- Firebird Embedded for Windows 2 RC1
- Firebird ADO.NET Provider 1.7.1 for .NET Framework 1.1
- FirebirdClient 2 RC3 for .NET Framework 2.0
Posted by Dan : @ dotnetfirebird.org
Ingres: Can You Ever Go Back?
[ED:worth reading it – a short intro to ingres history ]
Read more at Mark Logic CEO Blog
Morfik on ZDNet
David Intersimone on Borland spin-out "DevCo"
The leadership team of DevCo includes: Nigel Brown, Michael Swindell, Steve Todd, Alan Bauer, Ben Netick, and David Intersimone. They have 3-year roadmaps for Delphi, JBuilder, and Interbase. The size of DevCo will be ~250-300 at the start, i.e. about 20% of Borland's workforce. "Develop" has $100 mln in sales, about 30% of the total. Sounds like "DevCo" will be quite profitable from the start.
Read more here
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New Support Sub-Forums
I have created two new support Forums, they are Linux/Unix and Windows. These forums are for discussing Firebird on specific OSs.
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