“Official” CodeGear/Borland dbExpress driver for Firebird

Translated from Erick Sasse blog:

This week I was in BorCon-BR and watched the Steve Shaugnessy’s talk , one of the person responsible for the database area in Delphi. He told that there will be a Borland/CodeGear’s “official” dbExpress driver for Firebird. The customers demand has now proven to justify the investment in the development of the driver. He didn’t give any details, and don’t know if the driver will be developed entirely by CodeGear or by someone from Firebird community with their help, but made it clear that it will be done. Finally, not?

News from FF Blog

Mon 29 Oct 2007 02:30:00 GMT Broadview Resumes Gold Sponsorship Secretary
Last week at the Firebird Conference, Sean Leyne of Broadview Software, Toronto, Canada, presented a cheque for two further years of Gold sponsorship. Thanks, Sean, your cheque reached us today.

Mon 29 Oct 2007 11:10:00 GMT A New Silver Sponsor Secretary
M-Files (Motive Systems, Finland) has just become our latest Silver sponsor. Thank you, Antti Nivala.

Mon 22 Oct 2007 10:10:00 GMT Firebird Conference Mad Auction Stefan Heymann
The Mad Auction at this year’s Firebird Conference in Hamburg raised more than 3,750 Euros to augment the coffers for Firebird development. Thanks to those who dug deeply into their pockets and paid ridiculously inflated prices for their small treasures! Thanks also to the two companies that donated a total of 400 Euros in cash and didn’t take home any prizes.

Firebird supports software for patents!

but firebird does not support patents for software! just kidding 🙂

The reason why i wrote this is because on the firebird conference i was informed by a visitor about http://www.epoline.org. He is working for one of the largest german patent lawyer companies that uses the firebird server since a long time already. Their main database has about 400GB of patent informations. Epoline ist the official software required by European Patent Office for submitting patents in all European Countries. He expects that there about 23000 patent lawyer in the EU who must use this software to submit patents. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.epoline.org (about 170MB) and it does install and use the firebird server 1.5. With this information we now know that there are at least 23000 additional firebird installations in Europe. I will try to get some more background informations from the people behind this software.

This infomation might be useful for discussions regarding firebird reference users.

See you on next firebird conference in 2008 or on the firebird 2008 world bbq tour

Holger Klemt
www.firebird-conference.com

EMS Data Import 2007 for InterBase/Firebird version 3.1 is now available

EMS Data Import

EMS Database Management Solutions are pleased announce new version of Data Import for InterBase/Firebird 2007 – a powerful tool to import your data quickly from MS Excel 97-2007, MS Access, DBF, XML, TXT, CSV, MS Word 2007, ODF and HTML files into your database tables.

EMS Data Import 2007 is available and can be downloaded from the download page

What’s new in Data Import for InterBase/Firebird 2007 version 3.1

DB Comparer 2007 for InterBase/Firebird ver.3.0 released

EMS DB Comparer 2007 for InterBase/Firebird

EMS Database Management Solutions are pleased to announce
DB Comparer 2007 for InterBase/Firebird
– an excellent tool for database comparison and synchronization.

You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/dbcomparer/download

SQLAlchemy 0.4.0 Released

Michael Bayer writes:

I’m very happy to announce that we’ve put out 0.4.0 final. Thanks to all the contributors as well as all the beta testers who have helped us move through six beta releases, just to make sure we’ve got everything right (or as much right as we can). For those still working with 0.3, its time to upgrade ! 🙂 Lots of folks have already done it and it’s not so hard. I think this is the most well documented and easy to use SQLAlchemy yet, and its definitely the fastest by a wide margin…

What’s new in 0.4 release.

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