In the last saturday (29/July), around 600 Brazilians participated in the Firebird Developers Day conference (third edition). This year we had the presence of Holger Klemt (IBExpert) and Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) as international speakers, as well other great names of the Brazilian Firebird community. Unfortunatelly, Ann Harrison was not able to be here, but we hope to see her in the next year. A report with photos will be online in a few days.
Philippe Makowski posted in FB-Support:
Just to inform you and despite it is not yet official, but Mandriva is soon releasing their Corporate Server 4 distro and on the same time, their will be an official Firebird 2.0 package that will be available as additional software for this version.
Mandriva Corporate Server is the sell with support from Mandriva and the Firebird will be supported by IBPhoenix.So if you need an 5-year Product Maintenance, professional support, Mandriva will be a good choice.
Of course, the package will be also available from Cooker.
The “Get to know FB in 2 minutes” paper was translated to Bulgarian by Todor Kichukov. Now the paper is available in 12 languages!
Jornal de Piracicaba, the local Piracicaba’s newspaper has published today a notice about the 3ยบ Firebird Developers Day. An online version of the notice can be read here (in portuguese).
Borland is expected to announce a deal during the next few weeks having picked a buyer from a shortlist of three candidates narrowed from 10, sources told The Register. The deal is believed to be worth between $100m and $150m. More info here.
The new IBO subrelease (4.6Bc) supports all the new features of Firebird 2.0. You can download a trial and get more info at the IBO site.
ComputerWorld site published an article about Firebird:
Weeks praised Firebird’s “super server” architecture, which is a “drop-in replacement” for MySQL and can do whatever MySQL can do “with its eyes closed”. – Read full article here.
Here is a site with dozens of database models to be downloaded. Thanks Fabio Alves for sending the link.
Interesting article can be read here. Thanks for Fabio Alves for sending the link.
My new book, Firebird 2, was released today in Brazil, by Ciencia Moderna publisher. The preface (from Ann Harrison) and the summary can be downloaded here (in portuguese).
