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!
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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.
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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
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include LQ conference updates, 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, your feedback on LQ, the LQ Articles and Editorials section, the MySQL acquisition of Netfrastructure, more on the MySQL, Oracle, SAP rumors and the TCO study sponsored by OSDL and Levanta.
–jeremy
ED:Members Choice Awards For Databases (will be published in 6March)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Dave Dargo, CTO of Ingres, has its own opinion on what it all means. In his view, Oracle is scaring customers away from open source systems that can be acquired, towards systems that cannot be acquired. Firebird is a prime example of the latter. Curiously, Ingres is an example of the former.
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All our applications run using Firebird, in 3-tier mode. The 2 flagships applications are:
– School administration software. – Used by 1000+ schools in Flanders.
– Accounting program. – Also used by 1000+ schools in Flanders, and by regular companies as well.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“We’re definitely not planning on somehow transitioning our architecture… There’s no truth to any re-engineering rumor”, said Arn (MySQL’s vice president for community relations).
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A new paper directed to all users who are meeting Firebird for the first time is now available online. Check it out and you may see that 2 minutes can change your whole vision about database servers!
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Devrace are happy to announce the release of FIBPlus 6.4 (evaluation version). This version is fully compatible with Borland Developer Studio 2006. So now FIBPlus components are compatible with a big number of Borland products: Delphi 5-7, Delphi 2005-2006, C++ Builder 5-6, 2006 and Kylix 3, as well as with servers Borland InterBase 4.x-7.x and Firebird 1.x-2.0. This new version of FIBPlus, the best tool in Database Connectivity category according to the voting results of Delphi Informant Magazine’s 2004 Reader Choice Awards, includes a number of enhancements and more than 10 bug fixes. For more details read Press release and Release notes.
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