Firebird and Business Intelligence
The article TECH FILES-Business Intelligence II: Software that tells a story in BarnStablePatriot mentions that Firebird is supported by Interactive Reporting 2.4, published by Interactive Reporting.
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!
OpenDBX will support Firebird
OpenDBX: An unified database API and C library plans to include Firebird support in its next subrelease. Read more.
Firebird Foundation Annual General Meeting
Notice has been given that the Firebird Foundation Inc. shall convene on 26 June 2006 at Noon GMT in the FFMembers mail list forum for its Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers for the new session. Please bookmark the Agenda page. During the notice period, its content will expand to include nominations (as they come to hand) and links to reports and last year’s Minutes.
FBConference 2006 – Call for papers and sponsors
The fourth Firebird Worldwide Conference will take place at the Andels Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic from the 12th November 2006 until 14th November 2006. The Andels Hotel is a new 4-star hotel, which is located very close to downtown, just across the river. Room tariff is from €99.00 (Euros) per night.
We are now calling for Speakers and Papers, as well as looking for Sponsorhip.
More information here.
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FB 2.0 release notes in HTML
The release notes of Firebird 2.0 is now available in HTML format here.
FB used in thousands of companies in Brazil
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.
More on DevCo and Firebird
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 V4
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.
IBDeveloper #4 is out
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.
