How much would be the cost to develop Firebird from scratch?
Check this analysis of Firebird done by ohloh. It estimates that the cost to hire a team to develop Firebird from scratch would be $37,373,773.
Check this analysis of Firebird done by ohloh. It estimates that the cost to hire a team to develop Firebird from scratch would be $37,373,773.
SQLObject is an object-relational mapper for python. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy to use and quick to get started with.
SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Firebird. It also has newly added support for Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB).
What’s New
Stunnix Advanced Web Server is a Web server for putting Web sites onto CD-ROMs, DVDs, FlashDisks, and other readonly media to be used on any typical system
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Changes:This release adds support for Web sites that use the Firebird database server
The JVCS team is happy to announce the JEDI VCS 2.41 client release,
which is intended as a maintenance release for 2.40 but also includes
some new features.
“Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use” mentions Firebird, although has some interesting (to not say funny) mistakes, like:
the Firebird Project is based on the source code released by Borderland Software, formerly known as “Imprecise“, in July of 2000.
Should we mention this as “joke of the day”? 🙂
Are you curious to see all the new internal functions that will be available in the shortcoming FB 2.1? If so, take a look here. Most of the functions were ported from Yaffil to FB 2.1. It seems that the porting job was finished by Adriano a few days ago. That’s really good news 🙂
SQLAlchemy is the python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper with firebird support. Version 0.3.7 is out and has a huge number of improvements and fixes. Some of the highlights:
structural relationships, fewer codepaths, better result handling
Get the latest version of SQLAlchemy via setuptools or at: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/download.html
SQLLY Development team is happy to announce the availability of the next version of InterBase/Firebird Development Studio.
Please find detailed list of news and fixes at:
http://www.sqlly.com/news/chagelogs/changelog11.en.html
More information about InterBase/Firebird Development Studio can be found at:
http://www.sqlly.com/features.en.html
http://www.sqlly.com/IBDS.en.html
30-days evaluation version is available at the following page:
http://www.sqlly.com/download.en.html
I’m pleased to annouce that libgda/libgnomedb version 3.0.0 have been released
This is the first major stable release since the previous 1.2.x
versions, in which of the code has been reworked, many new features
have been added and the dependencies have been lowered to a minimum;
for more information, please visit http://www.gnome-db.org. Read more
Mono 1.2.4 preview sources, packages, and installers are available at:
http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/download-preview/
The beginnings of the release notes for 1.2.4 are available at: