Firebird database readies SMP release
News Firebird developers are due to do an alpha release of version 2.0 of the open source database later this month and have completed work on SMP support, which is due to be released in late spring. Firebird is an open source relational database that...
[January 7, 2005, 14:45]
MySQL poaches Firebird pioneeer
News Starkey is credited with creating the InterBase relational database and has been active in the Firebird Foundation open source database community. The Firebird database is derived from the InterBase code.
[February 27, 2006, 9:30]
MySQL and Firebird battle for database top spot
News Firebird and MySQL are almost neck-and-neck as they vie to be the most widely deployed open source database product, according to a survey released on Thursday. The Evans Data Corporation survey of 400 database developers found that MySQL accounted...
[January 21, 2005, 14:10]
Mozilla Foundation shifts focus with new browser
News Mozilla also released new preview versions of Firebird and Thunderbird, the stand-alone browser and email client that will replace the current all-in-one application. The organisation debuted beta-test versions of its stand-alone browser, code...
[October 15, 2003, 17:55]
Mozilla releases last 'fat' browser
News Following release 1.4, Mozilla developers will begin working on a new version based on software known internally as "Firebird", for the browser client, and "Thunderbird", for the mail client. Future releases will be based on a slimmed-down, Mozilla...
[July 1, 2003, 11:34]
Oracle's free software foray scorned
News Paul Beach, an administrator of the open source Firebird project, agreed that Oracle Express cannot be compared with the open source databases Firebird and PostgreSQL, which “offer full functionality from the low end to the enterprise.
[November 2, 2005, 14:00]
New Mozilla name rises from ashes
News Ten months after landing in a fierce trademark dispute with a fellow open-source organisation, the Mozilla Foundation has changed the name of its standalone browser from Firebird to Firefox. The original name "Phoenix" encountered trademark...
[February 10, 2004, 7:30]
Mozilla backs down on browser name
News After a heated war of words with a fellow open-source development group, Mozilla.org appears to be backing down on its use of the name "Firebird" for future releases of its browser. The dispute began last month when Mozilla.org, the browser...
[May 7, 2003, 9:20]
Mozilla upgrades browser
News But due to user demand, the group decided to continue developing the suite until its eventual replacements, the Firebird browser and Thunderbird email client, are ready for prime time. The Mozilla Foundation has debuted its second significant Web...
[January 16, 2004, 16:40]
'Most important ever' MySQL reaches beta
News It accounted for 40 percent of open source database deployments, while Firebird and PostgreSQL accounted for 39 percent and 11 percent of deployments respectively. A beta of the next major version of open source database MySQL was released on...
[March 29, 2005, 12:55]
Firefox browser hits 1.0 milestone
News First known as "Phoenix" and then as "Firebird," the browser was created as a response to complaints that the original Mozilla browser suffered from code bloat. Barring any last-minute surprises, the Firefox Web browser on Tuesday will turn 1.0.
[September 14, 2004, 8:30]
Top banks use tech to boost green credentials
News Saxe referred to Firebird, a programme to examine how Morgan Stanley's 12 data centres around the world can be made more efficient and cost effective — with air cooling seen as one of the future options.
[November 5, 2007, 11:59]
SAS's Goodnight won't say goodbye yet
News We use one called Firebird. It is 30 years since Jim Goodnight and John Sall founded a company called SAS Institute (now simply SAS) and built it to a £1.7bn turnover on the ideals of excellence in software development and best practice in people...
[May 23, 2006, 16:05]
MySQL adds subsecond failover
News That feature is included not only in commercial databases, but also in rival open-source databases including PostgreSQL and Firebird. MySQL plans to announce a higher-end addition next month that will allow more than one instance of its open-source...
[March 15, 2004, 15:55]
CA's Ingres sell-off met with scepticism
News Paul Beach, an administrator of the project around the open source database Firebird, agreed. Computer Associates on Monday announced that it had sold off the majority of its share in the Ingres open source database to a private equity firm.
[November 9, 2005, 9:10]
Mozilla browsers lure early adopters from IE
News Code bloat cost the Mozilla Foundation support for its browser until it focused on producing a smaller and faster application, dubbed Phoenix, then Firebird and finally Firefox to avoid naming conflicts.
[September 16, 2004, 9:50]
Netscape updates browser despite Andreessen's gloom
News The group has been planning to switch its code over to a more streamlined version of the browser, first developed under the name Phoenix and then changed to Mozilla Firebird, following trademark disputes.
[July 2, 2003, 8:35]
