Firebird related news
From Firebird Foundation blog:
QuickEasy Software, from Cape Town, today became a Silver sponsor, with CEO Heinrich van der Vyver stating “…recently converted our software from IB6 to run on Firebird 2.0.3 and I’m very pleased with the result, also with the backend utility Flamerobin.”
The download counter on sf.net for all downloads is over 5 Millions , and the stats shows that traffic is growing
[ps:we should talk with the xampp guys to include php extension for firbird and the server]
You can use the following URL to check the recent Firebird project’s CVS repository activity (updated every few hours).
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of AnySQL Maestro – a freeware, but powerful tool for all the database engines accessible via ODBC driver or OLE DB provider (Access, SQL Server, Firebird, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc). Key features include database object management, graphical database designer, visual query builder, data export and import, BLOB Viewer/Editor, and a lot of other things.
AnySQL Maestro has been successfully tested with Firebird ODBC drivers 1.xx and 2.0 beta and all the latest Firebird server versions up to 2.1. |
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Einstein, a group of universities in Brazil, is now offering extension courses based on Firebird:
More information here (in portuguese).
[ED]I know that a lot of universities here in Brazil uses Firebird as the default database for their computing courses, but it is the first time I see one of them offering extension courses based only in Firebird.
In the latest days, some messages coming from a CodeGear person were posted in some Brazilian’s Delphi/Firebird discussions lists, asking for users to report any problem related to the use of the new DBX4 drivers (coming with Delphi 2007) and Firebird.
Previously, FirebirdNews reported that in the latest Brazilian BorCon (2007), it was told that BOR/CG would probably release a Firebird compatible dbExpress driver. Seems that things are really moving in this way.
Some Leap Years and Division by Zeoro example in different database systems
Screenshot: Mandriva One 2008.0 with Firebird, Flamerobin and docs
Finally, this development release contains a prototype of an ODBC backend for the OpenDBX database access library. It’s not fully functional yet and misses the code for data retrieval but data definition and manipulation statements work. Also, the code does compile cleanly if the latest GCC compiler suite is used.
