Back in from the cold - to firebird

I've been looking at several tools for this venture. Delphi is a requirement as I can deliver a great application to the intended audience using Delphi. I've looked very seriously at both Firebird and ElevateDB as the intended database that I will be using. I still have not made up my mind on these yet as both have their strong points.

If I end up going with Firebird, then I'll most likely be using the IBObjects components. I've used these before at a customer's site and have been impressed at the genuine speed that results.

http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-in-from-cold.html

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building minimal php with only firebird/interbase extension

if you want to build minimal an php+firebird extension only setup
here is how to do it without xml/mysql/sqlite and all that stuff that
you might not need it

tar -jxvf php-5.2.6.tar.bz2
cd php-5.2.6/

./configure --disable-all --with-interbase --prefix=/tmp/foo
--with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs
make
make install


/tmp/foo/bin/

./php -m
[PHP Modules]
date
interbase
Reflection
standard

[Zend Modules]


and you can test the minimal php and eats less memory in apache/lighttpd/nginix

-- ls -lah php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.5M 2008-06-19 17:35 php





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Firebird 2.0.4 is now in ubuntu

Here are the details for package

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Firebird builds on both ARM and ARMEL

from this table you can see that firebird builds on both ARM and ARMEL ( ARMEL is just ARM with some hardware extras.)
http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0
and here is the buildlog

http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0;ver=2.0.4.13130-1.ds1-2;arch=armel;stamp=1212179688

if you use debian then you can download from here

http://packages.debian.org/sid/armel/firebird2.0-super/download

According to http://eetimes.eu/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199702110

from linux tiny

Arm shipped the processors in 250 million "smart phones" in 2006 (83%
market share in that niche).

According to ARM Inc. quarterly results for Q1 2007:
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/19/197211/press/Q12007EarningsRelease.pdf

In the first quarter of 2007, the licensees of ARM Inc. shipped 724 million
ARM processors. In one quarter. (ARM Inc. collected $45 million in license
fees, which is an average of 6.2 cents/processor.)

In a May 23 2006 presentation to ARM investors, ARM Inc. estimated its 2006
market share at 80-90% of the cell phone market, but only 21% of the larger
market. (The embedded world is big, folks.)

Drew highlighted five key growth areas for ARM between now and 2010...

[The first four are] set-top-box, high-definition television and DVD systems,
solid-state and hard disk drive storage, automotive electronics and 32-bit
microcontrollers. In these areas in 2006, ARM had market shares of 14, 20,
5 and 13 percent respectively... They are also market sectors that will
represent a total available annual market of nearly a billion cores or more
each in 2010. The biggest annual market opportunities are likely to be
automotive and 32-bit microcontrollers at 2.0 billion and 1.9 billion cores
each.

ARM's fifth key target market is the smart phone, where it is already
enjoying success. In this area the company shipped 250 million units in 2006
and has a market share of 83 percent, according to its own estimates.


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debian build log firebird2.0/hurd-i386 failing reason

[Category: none]
> ../src/jrd/gds.cpp:176: error: 'MAXPATHLEN' was not declared in this scope

http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=firebird2.0#fail-firebird2.0-hurd-i386

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changelog for ubuntu

https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firebird2.1
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firebird2.0

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