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Firebird mention on the Attlassian blog The Firebird Project is already using JIRA for their Firebird RDBMS Issue Tracker. And now it’s even easier for developers to search, share and keep up to date with the Firebird Project using FishEye. [ED: I like how the branches are presented in an good graphical way Also you can [...]

Hardsoft TV was covering the last Firebird Developers Day in Brazil, and now interviews started to be put online in their site. You can check the first one here (it is in portuguese, but you can check the images of the local, attendees, speakers, etc). BTW, the link only works with Internet Explorer.                    

Paul Beach posted some comments about the SDTimes article “InterBase 2009 comes with multicore support” in his blog. Don’t forget to take a look at them.                    

Open-source databases have become quite prominent over the last decade, in large installations as well as small ones. MySQL and PostgreSQL are the best-known open-source databases, but SQLite, Firebird, and CouchDB are also popular in some corners, and offer compelling features of their own. In some cases, users aren’t even aware that they have installed [...]

Two interviews made with Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) and Meiji Kimura, two years ago in the 3rd edition of Firebird Developers Day in Brazil was recently discovered and published in the HardSoft TV site. HardSoft covered the conference one more time this year, and we expect to have the interviews published in the next 2 months. PS: IE [...]

Is open source software a part of your daily computing life? Now is your chance to sound off about it. Sourceforge.net, an online community that hosts open source projects, is accepting nominations for its annual Community Choice awards. [ED:Read the rest of the article here At the end Firebird is mentioned for the last year awards] . It’s [...]

SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards: Hey! You! Are you sick of letting the big hardware companies, tech blogs, and mainstream media decide which open source projects deserve widespread attention? So are we. That’s why we created the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, and we need your nominations! This link is for firebird nomination

The site Database Journal talks about the new FB 2.1 release.

A sample how to configure Zend Db Adapter from Zend Framework using php_interbase (firebird extension)

The Firebird Project has ported its lightweight, open-source database to the ARM architecture. The project is looking for help testing a new Firebird 2.1 RC2 release, which in addition to ARM support, adds database triggers, temporary and monitoring tables, common table expressions, and recursive queries http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7532715481.html [ED: ok the arm port is not merged in the cvs [...]

FWIW: Firebird won the 2nd place in the Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008. http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,47,nodeid,17,p,0.html

The last post was supposed to be this one, but I got distracted on how I found it “Whether you’re using Postgres, SQLite, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, HSQLD, Firebird, Derby, or whatever, you’re benefiting from the popularity of MySQL. If you’re still using Progress, dBase, or Sybase, maybe not. My point is that MySQL did for databases [...]