Oracle announces it will buy Sun Microsystems. Another open source database (MySQL) joins the heap that Oracle has been buying up. "If you can't beat it, buy it!"

Thanks to Tsutomu Hayashi his build, released today, of Firebird 2.0.5 Classic for the Solaris 10 SPARC platform.

Thanks, too, to the IBPhoenix build team for ironing out the wrinkles in the Firebird 2.1.2 Classic build for MacOSX on PowerPC and releasing it.