On 02/16/13 23:34, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > On 16-2-2013 19:02, Ann Harrison wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:38 AM, marius adrian popa <map...@gmail.com >> <mailto:map...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Are there some tasks in or around Firebird that could be submitted? I >> believe there are many students out there who would love to join in the >> DBMS project and learn about DB internals. >> >> >> Probably true. >> >> >> >> Some of the ideas : >> >> Port Firebird to IOS >> Port Firebird to Android >> >> >> I trust you mean the client, not the server. > Actually, server makes a lot more sense than client, eg the embedded > engine for clientside datastorage. IMHO you shouldn't connect directly > from a mobile phone to an external databaseserver, it is inefficient and > a lot harder to secure than for example a specific webservice.
Firebird 3 has secure remote passwords protocol, producing cryptograpically strong unique session key for aRC4 module, used to crypt all remote traffic. I.e. from security POV I see no problems connecting to external database servers from android device. What about efficiency, I think that running client app on 10'' tablet makes sense. Imagine something like FlameRobin on it as a first example - for me seems to be good. Certainly, I don't want to say that server is useless on android, but on my mind client also makes sense. PS. What I'll be glad to outsource is packaging & installation for that OS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
