From Firebird Foundation blog:
Another reminder to members that our Annual General Meeting will start next Tuesday, June 26, at noon GMT. The Agenda is being assembled: you can watch its development by going to the Foundation’s main page and clicking on the AGM logo near the top.
From Firebird Foundation blog:
Our newest corporate member, Apolo Ingenieria, of Colombia, yesterday became a Bronze sponsor and today advanced its contribution to Silver sponsorship. C.E.O. Herman Freddy H.O. said “I am much satisfied by Firebird, I hope to have soon my products with Firebird.” That’s what we need to hear!
For those that are interested, the Firebird Embedded SQL guide for RM/Cobol has been updated to include event handling. You can find the guide in either HTML or PDF formats here.
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The Brazilian Firebird Conference (FDD – Firebird Developers Day) to be held in Piracicaba-SP in 14/July has finally completed the sessions grid. Interested people can check the sessions titles and summaries in the conference site.
Evans Data had put online a new survey for developers, and one of the questions is: Which of the following databases are in use at your company?
Of course, the right answer is Firebird 🙂 You can find the survey here.
People coming in the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day conference will be able to register many Firebird related products by a very special discounted price! The list of products includes IB Expert, all the IBSurgeon tools, FIBPlus and BlazeTop and a few others!
If you live in Brazil, it is your chance to participate in a great conference and be able to register your preferred products paying much less!
All the details can be found in the conference site.
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In its 4th edition, the Brazilian conference will be held one more time in Piracicaba-SP, at 14/July. The conference site is already accepting online subscriptions. You can see reports of the past editions (in portuguese and english) here.
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