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EMS Software Development is pleased to announce new version of Data Pump 2006 for InterBase/Firebird – the powerful tool to convert databases and import table data from an ADO-compatible sources to Firebird and InterBase databases! You can download the newest version of EMS Data Pump 2006 for InterBase/Firebird from the download page. |
[Quoting from this article where firebird is mentioned http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1781895,00.html]
For instance, our product, Vault, stores all data using Microsoft SQL Server. Some people don’t like this. We’ve been asked to port the back end to Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Firebird. This issue is in our bug database as item 6740. The four questions would look like this: Read more
“…I think, to some extent, that Oracle is getting to that perch in the database business. Yet there is a lot of movement in the database business with open source software. We use one called Firebird. They should do something about it.
We had an experience when we were thinking about going public and our consultants said that we needed to get off SAS for our internal ERP work because it is just not a recognised brand and they suggested Oracle. It was Ernst and Young and we spent three or four years and $10m and it was just outrageous. And in the release (of Oracle) that we were working on there were over 10,000 bugs. That’s horrible.“
Read complete article here.
From the Site of the day department here is the firebird dedicated site in china www.firebird.net.cn/
[Ed : you will need the babel fish maybe ]
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EMS Company is pleased to announce new version of Advanced Data Import – Component Suite for Borland Delphi and C++ Builder, that will allow you to import your data to the database from files in the most popular data formats: MS Excel, MS Access, DBF, XML, TXT and CSV. The newest version is available at the download page. |
Ladies, gentlemen,
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular database development tool:
Database Workbench 2.8.6 has been released today!
Download a trial at: http://www.upscene.com
What’s new?: http://www.upscene.com/products/dbw/whatsnew.htm
Full list of features and fixes: Read more
From IBPhoenix – Adarvo Ltd, Switzerland (www.adarvo.net) run a collaboration server that is based on a Firebird database. Current (May 2006) size of the database is about 49GB and there are more than 2000 customers currently using the service at this site.
Warning : they are for documentation contributors not for distribution or end users (If you spot mistakes contact the firebird-doc team ) Read more
This was tested on the Ubuntu Dapper Drake (that will be released this summer)
I assume you have installed the g++ compiler (with apt-get or synaptic)
download the Firebird 2.0 RC 2 kit from the nearest mirror
Read more
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