Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes
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!
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Loading...Devrace FIBPlus 6.4 – compatibility with BDS 2006
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.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Master Maths migrated to Lazarus/Firebird
I contract at Master Maths in South Africa. Master Maths entrusted Lazarus with its 3rd incarnation of its flagship product. After a few weeks of testing and prototyping different languages and development environments, we opted for Free Pascal and Lazarus. We are rewriting the flagship product using Lazarus with the Firebird DB as backend (via the FBLib components) driven by the tiOPF2 framework. The new version of the product will run under Linux and Window.
Regards,
– Graeme –
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...IBPhoenix Developer CD No. 10 (February 2006) is now shipping
IBPhoenix Developer CD No. 10 (February 2006) is now shipping, including a new in depth look at “How to Write an External UDF Function”.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...TurboCASH on Lazarus/Firebird “proof of concept”
Developers from turboCASH are asking for Lazarus programers (people that program using Lazarus IDE) to set up a small test application to prove that Lazarus can be IDE of choice to port turboCASH to Linux.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...MySQL poaches Firebird pioneeer
ZDNet talks about recent moves… read more here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Business factors in OSS database companies
Andrew Hudson has a review of open source database companies over on OSNews. "IBPhoenix employs 6 people, grossed $50k its first year, and has nearly doubled revenue each year since. Beach formed InterBase Software to commercialize the existing and mature code base that Borland had taken open source after several years of closed source development. Borland continues to sell InterBase as a closed source product. InterBase is a relatively small company but it is profitable, it has a solid international presence, and it is growing rapidly."
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Does open source matter?
Neil McAllister has an insightful article on the relative position of proprietary and closed source databases. He argues that "free to develop, pay to deploy" is becoming the norm in both worlds.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...SQL Manager 2005 for InterBase/Firebird ver. 4.1 released!
EMS Software Development Company has released the new version of SQL Manager for InterBase/Firebird, a powerful tool for InterBase and Firebird administration and development.
SQL Manager 2005 is compatible with any Firebird version up to 2.0 and InterBase version up to 7.5, supports all of the latest features and offers plenty of powerful tools for experienced users to satisfy all their needs.
In the newest program version the ability to register multiple local servers has been added. Also a lot of improvements and bugfixes have been made.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...MySQL to Fight Oracle With Fire(bird)?
“I’m very happy that Jim, Ann and Taneli have joined MySQL AB,” said Michael “Monty” Widenius, the company’s co-founder, in a statement.
“There is plenty of work to go around, and with their combined experience, they can help us deliver on all the plans that we haven’t had time to pursue yet — and also supply us with lots of fresh new ideas.”
Read the full article here.
My note: The article says that Jim is involved with Firebird since 2000. This is not true. Jim got involved with Firebird only when IBPhoenix hired him to develop Vulcan.
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