> About 4 days ago, while hopping around the net to find some db

related stuff I stumbled upon a comment that Firebird's releases are
too far apart. “Kinda true”, I thought and I went to IBPhoenix.com
to see what’s happening there. The announcement of the day said:

>
> “Firebird 2.0 Beta 1 builds are available for download and

testing (including Classic for AMD64 Linux).”

>

Do you think that Firebird going Beta is newsworthy to these sites?
Sure the database specific sites may mention it, but I doubt a Linux
site would bother, not for beta. MySQL forms part of the LAMP stack,
so that probably explains the white noise.

It is a credit to a product when release cycles are not artificially
shortened through pressure to fix known bugs. Sure it would be nice to
have seen the new index structure, garbage collection and longer
indices sooner.

Also, the improvements to Firebird are useful. Nested tables etc will
be great, but MySQL is finally starting to acquire features that
labelled it a toy, views, stored procedures, triggers, constraints etc.

But feel free to notify whatever sites that Beta 1 is out. But you
will need to spell out in real value terms what it introduces. This
might be hard unless you have benchmarks of some sort. What might be
useful is a performance comparison between 1.5 and 2. I suspect there
will be a significant performance improvement in certain cases, and
large performance gains is something we have going for us (unlike
MySQL which will become slower with such features)

Adam