FireServer site is online!
The official site for the FireServer Project is now on-line! You can find basic information about the project. There are no ISO downloads available yet. We expect to have the first ISO until the end of August.
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Fireserver Project is coming
Fireserver is a project of a custom linux server distro that includes Firebird as default database server, and can be used freely by any company who want to simplify their customer’s servers administration and support.
You can read a full article about the Fireserver project in opensource.com/life/14/6/fireserver-project
News about Firebird 3 release
Here are some news about the next FB 3 releases time-frame, coming direct from Dmitry Yemanov:
We’re approaching Beta 1 (hopefully to be released in July), with one more Beta to follow and then RC appearing this Autumn, probably around the conference time.
Firebird Roadmap can be seen here.
Firebird Developers Day
The 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day (Brazilian) Conference will happen in 30/August, in Piracicaba-SP. More details to be announced soon.
All about transactions
IBSurgeon guys published some pictures of the “All about transactions” seminar that just happened in Moscow. You may recognize some of our Firebird fellows there 😉
http://ib-aid.com/en/news/firebird-tour-in-moscow-june-4-2014
Clad Genius using Firebird
It seems that Clad Genius (intelligent software for posting ads in classified sites) uses Firebird.
Firebird International Conference is officialy announced
Firebird Project is glad to announce Firebird Conference 2014: the most important international event devoted to FirebirdSQL. Firebird Conference 2014 will be a meeting point for all Firebird users and core developers of Firebird. It’s the best place to share and receive FirebirdSQL knowledge!
Firebird Conference 2014 will be October 24-25, 2014, in Prague, Czech Republic, in Clarion Congress Hotel (see details about its location).
There will be 2 simultaneous flows in the conference, during 2 full days.
More details about the Conference can be found in http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2014/
Firebird for Android may arrive soon
Alex Peshkov commented in the fb-devel list that he plans to start working in a port of Firebird 3 for Android right after FB 3 Beta 1 is released. Beta 1 is supposed to be out in this quarter.
Citrix EdgeSight uses Firebird
Citrix® EdgeSight™ is a performance and availability management solution for XenDesktop, XenApp and endpoint systems. EdgeSight monitors applications, devices, sessions, license usage, and the network in real time, allowing users to quickly analyze, resolve, and proactively prevent problems.
In the EdgeSight support page, we can find the following:
The EdgeSight agent is continuously monitoring every process that is running on the monitored device. In turn, it is continuously writing performance data to its local Firebird SQL database.
So, one more big company using Firebird.
How many more are out there, and we still don’t know? 🙂
Firebird Goes Front Page
Firebird is on the cover of this month’s issue of C++Builder Developer’s Journal. The 2-part article inside, by Iskander Shafikov, discusses how to use Firebird in the C++Builder IDE.
You can view the preview cover at the BCBJ website for a limited time: http://bcbjournal.org/?loc=all_issues&vol=18