Month: April 2006
Centric CRM Version 4.0 Released with firebird support added
Centric CRM is a mature, fully featured, Java-based, Web-delivered CRM with leads management, contacts, pipeline, accounts, quotes, campaign management, project management, document management, help desk, reports, employee, and admin modules.
Release focus: Major feature enhancements Read more
IBPhoenix Share Issue
Since IBPhoenix is a UK Ltd company – it has a right to issue shares to potential investors in the company, I have been contemplating this for quite a while, and wondered if there would be any interest out there for Firebird users, companies etc that would like to become shareholders in IBPhoenix? There are a number of reasons for thinking about this… Read more
INFORMATION_SCHEMA for Firebird
The SQL 2003 Standard introduced a new schema called INFORMATION_SCHEMA. Not every DBMS has implemented this feature yet, and Firebird isn’t an exception. Here’s an overview on how to extract META informations from the System Tables with simple queries.
FirebirdClient v2.0 Release Candidate 3 released
FDD will have 3 international speakers
The 3rd Firebird Developers Day Brazilian conference will count with the presence of Holger Klemt (IBExpert), Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon/IBDeveloper magazine) and Ann Harrison (IBPhoenix) as international speakers (along with many Brazilian speakers).
FDD can be a great oportunity for South American people to have contact with great names of the Firebird community, specially if they don’t want to spent a lot of money going to the International Conference (in Prague/Czech Republic).
The conference will take place in Piracicaba-SP, at 29 July (whole day).
SQL Query 2005 version 2.2 released!
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EMS Company is pleased to announce You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/query/download |
CVS repository
If you want a fresh copy of firebird but can’t because the problem of
the anonymous CVS, you can download the whole FB CVS tree at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/firebird-cvsroot.tar.bz2
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Interesting articles
I just found two new interesting articles in “About” site:
Two-Tier or n-Tier? – What one is better for you?
The ACID Model – Discusses the ACID concept used in many databases, including Firebird.
Google Summer of Code 2006 site is open for ideas
Summer of Code 2006 site is open for ideas
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
As organizations begin to sign up for Summer of Code, you will see a list of organizations and links to their ideas for student projects. We are not taking student applications just yet, see the FAQ for more details.
[ED: firebird foundation or ibphoenix can add some ideas now and participate as mentors]