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Firebird Foundation recent news

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News from the Firebird Foundation:

Wed 13 Oct 2010 09:00:00 GMT New Platinum Sponsor Secretary
Development-X Ltd, of Auckland, New Zealand is a new Platinum sponsor. Thank you, Liz and Jeff Keith. Jeff tells me he is looking forward to meeting up with any Foundation members present at the IBExpert conference next month in Bremen, Germany.
Wed 6 Oct 2010 10:00:00 GMT Martens & Prahl Gold Sponsorship Secretary
Martens & Prahl has resumed its Gold sponsorship. Thank you, Thomas Beckmann, for facilitating this.
Wed 6 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT Revival of ODBC Driver Sponsorship Secretary
DRB Systems Inc. CEO Steve Summers (also our Vice-President and a Gold sponsor already) has offered a goodly sum of $$$ to encourage a “kick-start” to resume development of the ODBC driver, to complete the v.2.0 release and get the v.2.1 driver well under way. Offer is made in combination with the reassignment of the FF grant allocation for this development, which has been lying fallow for a few years. A proposal has been made to a very capable developer and we await his acceptance.
Mon 4 Oct 2010 15:00:00 GMT Firebird 2.5 Release Everyone
We congratulate the Project team for releasing a great new version of Firebird today, v.2.5. We note that the Mind the Bird people are busy organising press releases and webinars to mark the day.

BlackFish is Dead , Firebird as Embedded Database replacement

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Marco Canto noticed that

BlackFish SQL, the .NET database installed with recent versions of Delphi, is not part of Delphi XE… and it seems Embarcadero pulled the plug on it.

Would Firebird fit the bill ? , I think it would but tell us your thoughts (pro/cons) :

I really think Delphi has lacked a local and simple option, and suggesting people to buy the cheap “Interbase To Go” or pick the free Firebird Embedded still doesn’t address the original concern. With Delphi core dataset classes and data-ware controls still bound to a navigational model, a navigational database can really make simple applications fast to write and fast to execute.

Is it possible to write a similar Firebird database driver?

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Today we are (IBProvider team) overwhelmingly happy because we have finally released the final build of the 3rd version of IBProvider.

Is it possible to write a similar database driver?

Of course, you can write it! All you need is a strong desire and 7 years of free time. Exactly the same time it took us to write the third version of IBProvider.

Please read about development results here and download new Firebird driver here:
Firebird driver developers results

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Regards, IBProvider Team.

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