As shown in this article, the state of “Rio Grande do Sul” (in Brazil) moved his GIA application from InterBase to Firebird 1.5.2 in its version 6.8. GIA is an application used probably by thousands of companies in that state, to pay their monthly tributes.
Marco Cantu talks in his blog about what he expects regarding the relationship between DevCo and Firebird. Check the full post here.
DeZign for Databases has an intuitive visual interface that allows you to accurately design, create and maintain your database. It provides full support for ER-modeling (Entity-Relationship) techniques and supports most popular SQL and desktop databases.
Newly supported databases in this release include Oracle 10g, NexusDB 2, MySQL 5, Firebird 2 and MS SQL Server 2005. More information here.
I guess some of our readers have become a bit tired of waiting and wondering when the new issue would be released. I am really sorry about the long delay, but there have been some serious financial and time issues holding up production.
From Jason Wharton – I’ve put a new evaluation version at www.ibobjects.com and everyone who is a registered customer can go to community.ibobjects.com and download if their source access subscription is still current. Release notes are available at each location.
From Malcon Groves blog (Borland): ADUG Symposium in Melbourne and Adelaide
The Australian Delphi Users Group have been holding yearly Symposia since 1999 (I remember as I had to catch an early flight back from the first one to get married the next day), and the lineup just gets better every year. This year it’ll be in Melbourne and Adelaide, and the sessions include:
* How to implement Plug-ins in .NET – Glenn Stephens
* Sweet-talking Firebird with Delphi – Helen Borrie
* Component Development in Delphi/VCL – Glenn Crouch
* Delphi.Net on Linux using Mono – Emlyn ORegan
I’ll be there talking about Devco and the future of Delphi, but to be honest I’m also excited just to sit in the audience for the day and listen to some really smart developers. Also, anyone who is doing anything with Interbase or Firebird needs to attend just to listen to Helen, she literally wrote the book on Firebird.
DevCo (temporary name for the new company that will assume Borland IDE and InterBase) opened some emails to accept suggestions and questions from the community (a good step forward).
I sent to them 10 suggestions. The email is reproduced in my personal blog, in this post. I hope someone there accept at last some of the suggestions.
Pavel Cisar has discovered a new venue for the 2006 conference in Prague–a new 4-star hotel, Andels, which is located very close to downtown, just across the river, room tariff from 99 EUR/night. We have a firm booking. We will be calling for papers very soon so please watch for that.
Anyone wanting to be on the Firebird-conference mailing list, who’s not on it already, please contact the Secretary (helebor -AT- iinet dot net dot au) using the email address you want to use for the list subscription.
“Not just a database connection wizard, but one that lets you browse tables and drag-and-drop everything from table columns to triggers and stored procedures onto your PHP forms, for MySQL, PostgreSQL, UltraSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, SQLite, or Interbase.“
More info here.
“…I think, to some extent, that Oracle is getting to that perch in the database business. Yet there is a lot of movement in the database business with open source software. We use one called Firebird. They should do something about it.
We had an experience when we were thinking about going public and our consultants said that we needed to get off SAS for our internal ERP work because it is just not a recognised brand and they suggested Oracle. It was Ernst and Young and we spent three or four years and $10m and it was just outrageous. And in the release (of Oracle) that we were working on there were over 10,000 bugs. That’s horrible.“
Read complete article here.
