Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary
Firebird is included in the list of debian packages that must be fixed so it can be compiled without errors with GCC 4.1
New Firebird Developers’ Journal Starts
Dmitry Yemanov launches a Developers’ Journal where you can catch the latest comments from the core developers about how things are going.
Firebird Developers Day – Call for sponsors
The third edition of the conference will happen on July 29th, 2006 at UNIMEP (in Brazil). The expected audience size this year is from 500 to 750 people. This is mostly a portuguese-speakers conference, and an unique chance to reach directly hundreds of potential customers. Paying your sponsorship until 31/March you get 20% discount! Contact fdd.at.firebase.com.br to get the conference mediakit with all the information, including sponsorship plans and prices.
The return of the VAX cluster
iSCSI is making network shared storage an increasingly popular choice in the midmarket. A $15K device can offer 2.5TB shared storage to 6 servers. Now that looks remarkably like the architecture of the VAX clusters of old. Perhaps it is time to resurrect the Firebird VAX clustering code.
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Database workbench 2.8.5 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular database development tool:
Database Workbench 2.8.5 has been released today!
Download a trial at: http://www.upscene.com
What’s new?: http://www.upscene.com/products/dbw/whatsnew.htm
Full list of features and fixes: http://www.upscene.com/news/20060327.htm
Database Workbench supports:
Firebird source code reviews
Recently, Coverity presented their first results in their scanning technology that hunts for defects in source code. One of the addressed projects was Firebird. After Roman Rokytskyy reviewed the results, he concluded the failures are in two areas:
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Firebird reviewed in Brazilian magazine
Coleção Info – a Brazilian publication that focus on specific diferent subjects at each edition, just released a new edition focused on Databases. Firebird is in the list of reviewed products and got a final score of 7.4.
New acronyms FLAPS , FWAP, FWIP
FLAPS is FLAP with Ssl (that is why S is at the end of word)
FWAP is an acronym for the combination Microsoft Windows, Apache, Firebird and one or more of Perl, PHP and Python. It is modelled after the more well-known FLAP, referring to the all-open source/free software approach which uses Linux instead of Windows.
FWIP is the WIMP equivalent (alias) with firebird used instead of mysql
MSSql difficult to configure? switch to firebird
However I don’t like MSSql server, first of all it is hard to configure, finding solutions to problems is not an easy task, it has lots of dependencies scattered around the hard disk. Hail mysql and firebird.


