[firebase-br] Fw: [Firebird-devel] SAS contribution to Vulcan

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Shamlin" <David.Shamlin em sas.com>
To: <firebird-devel em lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:56 PM
Subject: [Firebird-devel] SAS contribution to Vulcan


Greetings!

My name is David Shamlin; I am with SAS Institute, Inc 
(http://www.sas.com/). SAS is the company that comissioned the Vulcan port 
of Firebird. We are a business and analytic intelligence software vendor.

A year and a half ago we identified a business need to incorporate 
relational/ACID transaction storage capabilities into our platform bundle 
and decided to pursue an open source database solution that met our 
requirements. We chose Firebird because it supported an embedable database 
engine and implemented many of the SQL semantics our consumers need. Because 
our software platform runs on a number of 64-bit SMP operating systems, our 
first order of business was to create a Firebird port to one of these 
systems and introduce modest (i.e., multiple user requests executing in 
parallel) multi-threading capabilities to the engine. We entered into a 
partnership with IBPhoenix and with Paul Beach's help acquired the services 
of Jim Starkey to do much of the heavy lifting on the project for us.

In December of last year, Jim (with Ann's help) finished the initial phases 
of this work which has come to be refered to as the Firebird Vulcan project. 
During that time, we also had the opportunity to address some minor JDBC 
issues with Roman and discuss testing strategies with Pavel. Currently, SAS 
has three developers and a DBMS product specialist working full time with 
the Vulcan source. A couple of additional individuals are contributing on a 
part time basis to additional porting and testing efforts. We have an 
initial port to z/OS completed, and I hope to initiate ports to a couple 
more 64-bit Unix/Linux systems in the first quarter of this year.

SAS's intent since the beginning of the project has been to contribute to 
the Firebird open source project and continue to be an active supporter 
through direct development and possibly commissioning further coding 
projects in the future. Since Jim turned over his final work to us in 
December, we have accumulated a series of source code changes that address 
some bugs we've uncovered through our testing. At this point, we're 
interested in committing these changes to the new Vulcan repository on 
Sourceforge and would like to enter into a dialog with the Firebird project 
administrators on how we can most effectively accomplish that.

We're pleased with the results we have achieved with Firebird/Vulcan to date 
and excited about becoming an active participant in the Firebird project. I 
trust the community at large also sees the value inherent in Vulcan and will 
welcome SAS's contribution. We look forward to the opportunity to 
collaborate with the team and getting to know others involved with Firebird 
better.

I can be reached for direct follow up at david.shamlin em sas.com 
<mailto:david.shamlin em sas.com>  and will continue monitor this mail list in 
case the group wishes to have a more public discussion.

Thanks for your attention -- David
--
R&D Director, SAS Institute, Inc
david.shamlin em sas.com
919-531-7755



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