Firebird 2.0 Final Released

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Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 12, 2006 @04:14PM from the reborn dept.

Samyem Tuladhar writes "After 2 years in development, the Firebird Project today officially releases the much-anticipated version 2.0 of its open source Firebird relational database software during the opening session of the fourth international Firebird Conference in Prague, Czech Republic."

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Finally... by Bourdain · 2006-11-12 16:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I can finally convince my friends to upgrade their web browser from Firebird 0.6 :)
1. Re:Finally... by LittleBigLui · 2006-11-12 21:11 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  That's because trademarks apply only to the business areas they are registered for. For example, the manufacturer of shiny computers can use the same name as the record label that released the Beatles' records, since they aren't in the same business. (Until ITMS, that is.)
  
  Firebird-the-database is a DBMS, which, as everyone knows, is a big piece of metal that doesn't move and holds important data. Firefox-the-browser is a vehicle for travelling through the intartubes. It's obvious that the former is almost (but not quite) entirely unlike a car, whereas you probably would need a drivers' licence to use the latter, if it weren't for the lawlessness of teh intartubewebs.
  
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Guess they were right to complain by ghazban · 2006-11-12 16:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Who else thought this must be old news or a dupe after reading the title! I think they should change their version number to avoid confusion... Firebird v2.3-notawebrowser.
DUPE! by damiena · 2006-11-12 16:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Come on editors... They changed the name to Firefox how long ago? Not only that, but 2.0 was released like 3 weeks ago. I could of sworn I saw an article on slashdot even... Way to read your own site.

Oh, with... this is a database? Hmmm... they should probably change their name so that people won't get confused all the time.
Re:Huh? by GoogolPlexPlex · 2006-11-12 16:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Thunderfox
Re:Huh? by DragonHawk · 2006-11-12 16:33 · Score: 5, Funny

"Thunderfox"

Ice Weasel!

Alright, alright, I'm going, I'm going...

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Re:Really cool but... by aligma · 2006-11-12 16:41 · Score: 5, Funny

"and I don't know of any that support Firebird." Its the other -9%.
Re:Huh? by Reality+Master+101 · 2006-11-12 17:32 · Score: 3, Funny

Firefox, Thunderbird, Firebird... I'm confused

I think it's a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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BIOS by Anonymous Coward · 2006-11-12 17:59 · Score: 1, Funny

And my new computer doesn't even have a BIOS.
How does it smell?