The GNU Gatekeeper project (GPL license), a free H.323 gatekeeper that forms the basis for a free VOIP telephony system, has added a Firebird driver to its back-end options.
Oracle announces it will buy Sun Microsystems. Another open source database (MySQL) joins the heap that Oracle has been buying up. "If you can't beat it, buy it!"
Thanks to Tsutomu Hayashi his build, released today, of Firebird 2.0.5 Classic for the Solaris 10 SPARC platform.
Thanks, too, to the IBPhoenix build team for ironing out the wrinkles in the Firebird 2.1.2 Classic build for MacOSX on PowerPC and releasing it.
Kits for Windows were all replaced today to include some components that were missing. The new kits have the infix "-1" or "_1" after the build number, e.g. "Firebird-2.5.0.23247_1_Win32_Beta1.exe".
The Firebird Team is pleased to release the first Beta of Firebird 2.5, feature-complete and ready to field-test. Kits are available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux. So — please test it well and report your experiences (good or bad) to the Firebird-devel list. Do make a point of studying the release notes (available on-line and also in the download kits). Note also that there are a few known issues, particularly for those of you who are going to hammer this hard.
Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider v.2.5.0 Beta 2 for .NET 3.5/2.0 is ready for testing.
Transcripts of the presentations from the 2008 Firebird Conference in Bergamo, Italy, are now available for free download. Registration required first.
The Firebird team is pleased to announce the sub-release Firebird 2.1.2 for production. Kits for Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel and PowerPC are making their way to the mirror sites today. Enjoy! N.B. The Classic package for MacOSX PPC will be delayed slightly.
The Linux, Win32 and MacOSX/Intel release candidate 2 kits for Firebird 2.1.2 were released for field testing.