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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.

15 of 445 comments (clear)

  1. ok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ok, can you give firefox it's old name back? No one knows or cares about your project, but people actually give a fuck about firefox

  2. TOASTER! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    toaster,toaster toaser, do you have toast in you yet i think
    so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Im not a toaster!!!!!!!!!!And one more
    thing........YOUR A TOASER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A COOKIE WITH MILK SOAGE
    MILK!!!!!!!!!!AND A BUTT WITH POOP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. I thought it was Firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp

  4. Nobody cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ever hear of MySQL? No one cares about your comp sci 101 project.

  5. Who fucking cares? by Jailbrekr · · Score: -1, Troll

    After pulling the naming bullshit, I for one will do my damndest to avoid their product. There are better products out there, with far less baggage.

    I have to trust my open source providers. These people, I do not trust.

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  6. wtf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    no one gives a fuck about some open source bullshit. grow a dick and get laid nerds.

  7. Re:Firebird/fox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Great, so if I named one of my turds "slashdot" in 1983, I should be able to force Taco to call his website "slashfox"? Mozilla didn't co-opt shit; nobody had heard of or cared about this pissant database until they got all uppity.

  8. Wait a minute! by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought it was called Firefox?

    (lame, i know it)

    CB

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  9. Boycott them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They are just a buch of litigious bastards ruled by a board of directors that is made of up 1/3 lawyers. Avoid this DB at all costs. And try something that works intead.

  10. eh? by fuck_this_shit · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why does my browser need a database? I don't understand!

  11. What a jump! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just a little while ago, Firebird turned 0.8. Now it's all the way to 1.5? What an incredible development cycle.

  12. Re:Bleh by CeleronXL · · Score: -1, Troll

    It may very well be, but I wouldn't use a database backed by people who are so immature and whiny as that, and who went through the whole naming fiasco entirely to gain publicity. Even if the product is good, having a company like that backing it is a very valid reason to not use their products. There is a certain level of professionalism and respect a company must maintain if they want people to use their products.

  13. Re:Why I know about Firebird by Green+Light · · Score: 0, Troll
    And for the record, Firefox or whatever the hell it is calling itself this week is one of the stupidest excuses for a software package I've seen to date. It's Mozilla minus most of the features that make Moz useful and extensible. It doesn't run any faster than Moz in resident mode. It performs no useful function I am aware of. The adulation it receives utterly escapes me; it seems to be a prime example of building software for the past. The engineering effort would have been far better spent on Moz itself.
    That has to be one of the most inane statements that I have ever seen on /. (that is, among posts that have not already been moderated as flamebait). It is so wrong that I (as are most rational readers, I'm sure) am absolutely speechless...
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  14. Re:Can anyone actually run it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So the renowned Linux usability is not that great?

  15. Troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Troll? What the fuck are the moderators smoking? Oh, wait, cock, because they can't get dates.