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Firebird 2.0 Final Released

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Re:Really cool but... by griffjon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or, and I know this may be a bit revolutionary, how about a database abstraction layer and support for anything that speaks SQL, brought forward to the user/administrator interface? I imagine most projects are using libraries that support this anyhow...

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  2. Re:firebird is a very poor database. by Bourdain · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if you've seen "hacking democracy" (the hbo documentary on Diebold), you'll notice that their database is MS Access -- I'm anything but a software developer, but in my use of Access (granted Access 2000), I've seen enough inconsistent operation to be very careful about just client data for quick small analyses, let alone vote data integrity

  3. Re:For those of you who haven't heard of Firebird. by Shados · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, one thing: Firebird can be used in embedded scenarios