Not direct related to Firebird, but as a great number of Firebird users are also Delphi users, this is interesting news…
DevCo will release, in a few weeks, Turbo versions of its products, as free and low priced versions! Check more info in the following links:
www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2000205,00.asp
www.turboexplorer.com
Press release at www.turboexplorer.com/TurbosPressRelease.htm
On behalf of the InstantObjects team, I am proud to announce the final release of the long-awaited version 2 of InstantObjects.
Download URL:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/instantobjects/InstantObjects-2.0-src.zip?download
What is InstantObjects?
August 3rd 2006
Tech Solutions Inc., in a joint venture with Alesis Corporation, announce
the new audio media and Podcast hosting website CyberEars.com built on the Firebird 1.5 SQL database
Oracle is holding its own in the open-source database space, while not seeing any competition in the enterprise database market from open-source companies, Bob Shimp, the vice president of Oracle’s technology business unit, told eWEEK July 31.
Read full article here.
The releases notes for FB 2.0 RC4 is already available here. Installers and binaries are currently being built.
DBA Software, provider of manufacturing (MRP) solutions for small business, announced that its decision two years ago to base its flagship product, DBA Manufacturing Next-Generation, on the Firebird open-source SQL database has been an unqualified success.
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“Our free single-user system, which anyone can download from our Website, is testimony to Firebird’s ease of installation,” continued Zumwalt. “Over the past 18 months, more than 10,000 companies have downloaded and successfully installed our manufacturing software without any support assistance.”
Read full article here.
If you want to be a speaker in the next Firebird International Conference, the time for sending speaking proposals is almost over. More info here.
The report about the 3rd edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day is now online in both portuguese and english. The main index allows you to check reports of the previous editions too.
The SQL databases available for the .NET Framework today, including Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQL Everywhere, MySQL and Firebird are all based on unmanaged architectures. Therefore when developers create .NET Framework-based applications that embed any of these SQL databases today, the result is an unmanaged application that does not conform to Microsoft’s guidelines. VistaDB 3.0 changes this by enabling developers build fully managed .NET Framework-based SQL database applications that can run natively on desktops, mobile devices and web servers.
Full article here.
Firebird 2.0 article in LinuxDevices.com:
A project maintaining a lightweight, embeddable database is on the cusp of a major version release. Firebird 2.0 will feature a new MIPS architecture port, as well as new features such as derived tables, support for “execute block,” increased table sizes, and better index code.
Check full article here.
