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Firebird Relational Database 1.5 Final Out

Posted by simoniker on from the the-other-white-meat dept.

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.

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  1. Re:How do I use this thing? by zippity8 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    AFAIK, Firebird still retains the same interface as Interbase.

    This means that PHP4.0 has full support for it -- but I'm not sure how this applies with the new version of firebird.

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ibase.php
    http ://www.ibphoenix.com/a6181.htm

  2. I just installed it..... by mojo17 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...but i cannot seem to find the Tabbed Browsing thingie :(.

  3. Mod this down as Firebait! Mindless MySql trashing by ArseneLupin · · Score: 0, Redundant
    people who are comparing it to MySql: is mysql a *real*, relational, transactional database server? stored procedures? triggers? foreign keys?

    Mindless MySql bashing troll! Mod down. And for those who for some reason don't know: current MySql versions support all these features.

    Of course, if you go back to the stone age you might find some MySql version which didn't yet support everything that makes a database a database, but if we go that far back in time, I'm sure we'll find flamebox be wanting in some areas as well...

    Oh, [to the moderator who modded this as Informative]: may I have some of that "tobacco" that you have in your pipe? It smells so good!

  4. Love It! by rixstep · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've always been a big fan of the Foxbird Database system, and this release looks better than ever!