New Gold sponsor
UVdata A/S in Denmark has become a FF’s gold sponsor. Thanks, Jan Gaardboe Jensen and team.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Marco Cantu blogs about CG and FB
Marco has expressed his opinion about the actual relationship between Borland/CodeGear and Firebird in his blog:
As Carlos Cantu noted, it is very relevant that one of the InterBase engineers (Sriram Balasubramanian) blogged his congratulations. This gives me a good chance to reiterate something I mentioned many times on my blog, my hope that CodeGear (and the Delphi team in particular) will consider Firebird as a partner and not as a competitor of InterBase (the project Firebird was spinned off with Borland/Inprise original blessing). In my opinion, the key priority is to fully support Firebird in dbExpress with a specific driver, but official IBX support will also be nice to have.
Happy New Year!
FirebirdNews desires to all its visitors a very Happy New Year!
Go Firebird!
CodeGear sends congratulations to Firebird
Sriram Balasubramanian (InterBase R&D engineer ) wrote a “congratulations” post in his blog for Firebird’s “SourceForge Project of the month” nomination.
FB versions usage in Brazil
FireBase online poll (with almost 1,000 votes) shows the following results:
1.5x [50%]
2.0x [36%]
2.1 [12%]
1.0x [2%]
Poll question is: What is the most recent version of Firebird that you are using?
Firebird 1.5.5 is Released
The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 1.5.5. This bug-fix release adds no new features but addresses a few bugs and security issues that have turned up in the 11 months since v.1.5.4.
Sourceforget.net Marketplace
Article on ZDNet about Sourceforge Marketplace mention Firebird as a “major Open Source” project. Read more here.
Firebird 1.5.5 RC1
The Release Candidate of Firebird 1.5.5 is now available for testing. This sub-release introduces a few bug and security fixes backported from the Firebird 2.0.x branches. These test builds are available for Windows and Linux 32-bit platforms. You can download it here.
Pictures from Russian Conference
You can check a lot of pictures from the recent Russian Firebird Conference here.
Flash RAM instead of harddisks
Check the comments and you will find a very known “bird” 🙂