Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 3 Kits Now Available

The Firebird team is pleased to announce that kits for field-testing the third release candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available. The 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, along with 32-bit kits for Windows and 64-bit for the MacOSX/Darwin Intel platform. The missing kits for 64-bit Windows and 32-bit MacOSX are still in QA and will follow shortly.

Please test well and report any bugs directly to the firebird-devel list (click HERE if you are not subscribed). Please do not post questions about this pre-release version to the firebird-support list.

Ultimate EFv4 CTP4 Code First full mapping example using Firebird

Jiří {x2} Činčura created an example with Entity Framework 4 CTP4

Let’s model some kind of simple library and try to use there couple of Entity Framework’s features. And to make things worse, try to do it with ADO.NET provider for Firebird.Good news is I succeeded. My database structure was my first and non-touchable object (to be honest the first was the idea what to create and how to represent it in database) together with the idea of objects.

Which opensource database to choose?

Please post your thoughts about firebird on this interesting Linkedin thread on the Firebird community’s page

Which opensource database to choose?
Hi,
I have realized that the “opensource” alternatives to commercial databases / operating system are growing really fast now.
My question to you: experts here are:

  • What benefits will it be to select a firebird SQL database?
  • What market will suit best for firebird SQL Databases?
  • Regards Tomas

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