Firebird Relational Database 1.5 Final Out

firebirdy writes "The Firebird Project is pleased to announce that the v1.5 release of the Firebird database engine is now available for immediate download. The v1.5 release represents a major upgrade to the engine, which has been developed by an independent team of voluntary developers from the InterBase(tm) source code that was released by Borland under the InterBase Public License v.1.0 on 25 July 2000. Development on the Firebird 2 codebase began early in Firebird 1 development, with the porting of the Firebird 1 C code to C++ and the first major code-cleaning. Firebird 1.5 is the first release of the Firebird 2 codebase. Install packages are currently only available for Windows and Linux but other platforms should follow shortly." This product is not to be confused with newly renamed Firefox web browser, which was also called Firebird for some time.

Comments

Firebird(tm) and why I just don't care

[SeanTobin]

You know, I really don't have anything against the firebird(tm) db people. I'm sure they are all fine coders and the DB is probably fairly decent. Personaly, I'm not leaving mysql anytime soon but that is beside the point.

I'm not looking at thier web page. I'm not considering Firebird(tm) for any projects. I'm not recommending it to other people. I don't even really care about any new features in yet another relational database.

Why? Why would anyone go out of thier way to not learn about a (free?) new database release? My reasons are simple. I don't like the way they handled the Mozilla/Firebird naming issue. Does that have anything at all to do with the quality of thier products? I doubt it. Should I be so shallow so as to pre-judge an entire company and thier products by the way they handle thier PR? Probably not... but I'm still not sending SCO $699.