Gianugo kicked off good discussion on a mailing list (message reposted to the
Feather blog). It gets at an idea that has been floating around for a
good
while, that Open Source does not equate to Open Development, and
while the difference is glaring obvious to folks who have been
around open source for a while, it is not so to many others.
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Loading...IBEasy+ version 1.5 is now available for download at www.marc-grange.net/telecharger_en.htm
IBEasy+ is a freeware database design and administration tool for Firebird/Interbase. See download page for detailed information.
Marc Grange
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’m publishing the results of the coverity tests ran against Firebird 2.0 at 6/March/2006. For those who doesn’t know what is this: some months ago, USA government sponsored some companies to find bugs in popular Open Source projects, in a way to make them more secure. Firebird was in the software list. Now the first results are being published.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a U.S. government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible.” – Read more here.
Firebird is in the list of the Open Source tested software. I plan to put some more information about this here in FirebirdNews as soons as I put my hands on it.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Hi I’m Pieter Valentijn the Dutch programmer for Turbocash.
I have completed most of the port for Turbocash on Firebird today and would like to tell firebird users about this.
The full source and install can be found here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It seems that there will be no BETA3 for Firebird 2.0. In a recent chat with Dmitry Yemanov, he told me that he is working in the RC1 release. Very good news, it iseems that FB 2.0 is getting stable enough and we will have a final version in a short time 😉
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Now there seems to be a clear response. MySQL has hired former Firebird developer Jim Starkey and MySQL has a new CTO: Taneli Otala – read Kaj Arnö’s interview with Taneli.
The final statement on this interview declares a clear goal: “Definitely. I want to be part of the team building the world’s best database!”. The times when MySQL targeted itself mainly to drive small and medium web based applications are definitely over!
Read more on db4free blog
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The .NET Provider for .NET 2.0 comes with ability to be used in Visual Studio in Database Explorer, etc. It’s very usefull, but you have to do some steps to add provider into it. Here you can find how to do this. If you’ll have some questions after, use the Firebird-net-provider list.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We have a mention is OSNews site! Read it here.
The document is now available in English, Portuguese and Czech. Keep sending your translations!
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Darren wrote an tutorial about installing php5 and firebird 1.5.x on debian/ubuntu
Here is the full text on firebird-php mailing list
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