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Silver sponsorship

October 3, 2007 Cantu Leave a comment

From the Firebird Foundation blog:

Today we received a nice cheque from David Culbertson, of CounterWorks Inc., Colorado, U.S.A., to renew the company’s silver sponsorship for a year. Thank you, CounterWorks!

Let me remind that anyone can contribute with the Foundation (with any value) and help the project to move faster and strongly.

Firebird Maestro 7.9 released

September 20, 2007 SQL Maestro Team Leave a comment

SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.9, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development.

New version features:

Starting with this version you can reorder columns for existing tables. It is also possible to reorder parameters for a stored procedure.
Now it is possible to cancel a long running query execution (Firebird 2.1) and data fetching (all Firebird versions).
The SQL Formatter for DML statements (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) is fulfilled.
The UTF8 character set is added to the Create Database Wizard.
BLOB Viewer: it is now possible to save all BLOBs from a table to a given directory.
Data Import Wizard: the speed of loading of Excel files has been significantly increased.

There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4671/

Last chance: Early bird discount ends today Sep 20!

September 20, 2007 Holger Klemt Leave a comment

Last chance: Early bird discount ends today Sep 20!

Time is running out to save money through early bird registration to attend 5th International Firebird Database Conference 2007 in Hamburg, Germany. Attendees who are members of the Firebird Foundation can subscribe using the early bird discount prices until oct 10.

Conference Program and Registration Form: http://www.firebird-conference.com/fbconf2007.zip

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Wardenburg, Germany – August 30th 2007: The 5th International Firebird Database Conference is being held October 18th – 20th 2007 in Hamburg, Germany. The event is organized by HK-Software in cooperation with the Firebird Foundation. The conference is the premier event for professional open source database technology.

Courses and sessions Thursday and Friday:

• Beginners courses in both English and German languages
• Advanced courses English language
• A range of sessions English language
• Firebird Code Camp, English/German – a unique opportunity offering the possibility to directly discuss and solve technical problems with renowned Firebird experts
• NEW: Firebird and Web Solutions Code Camp
See the basics to use your favourite database system firebird as the database backend for open source web solutions:
-groupware phprojekt
-forum solution phpbb
-content management system OpenPHPNuke.
-development solution IBExpertWebForms
• Optional evening program.

Main Conference on Saturday:

On Saturday a wide range of main conference sessions are on offer, concluding with the renowned auction. The Conference closes with an evening cruise around the Hamburg harbor. The fee for the main Conference day starts at EUR 99.00 and for the full three days only EUR 399.00 if the registration is submitted before September 20th 2007.

Those who would like to bring along their family can contact the organizer at info@h-k.de for details of the family program.

About Firebird:

Firebird is along with MySQL and PostgreSQL the most successful Open Source database for professional applications. Firebird offers all important functions that are available in large databases such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase and MSSQL. Views, triggers, procedures, user-defined functions and a sound transaction model provide a robust and powerful platform for database applications.

The Firebird Server can look back at more than 20 years development history. It is deployed, for example, at the German Press Agency dpa and the German Telekom, to name but two, successfully in major applications with several hundred users. The license model allows free deployment even in commercial environments. Firebird can be run on Windows, Linux, Sun, Mac and other operating systems.

Firebird has won two categories this year in the Sourceforge Choice Community Award:
• Best Project for the Enterprise
• Best User Support

About HK-Software:

HK-Software was founded in 1991 by Holger Klemt, focusing on development, programming, support and coaching. One of HK-Software’s products is IBExpert, a professional integrated development environment for the development and administration of InterBase and Firebird databases. A further HK-Software product is IBExpertWebForms, a revolutionary simple-to-learn platform for the creation of database web application. HK-Software currently has fifteen employees working in various locations.

About the Firebird Foundation:

The Firebird Foundation (Inc.) is a non-profit-making association, founded and registered in New South Wales, Australia. The aims of the Firebird Foundation are to support and promote the further development of the relational Open Source database server, Firebird.

Internet Links:

Conference Program and Registration Form: http://www.firebird-conference.com/fbconf2007.zip

You can find further information about HK-Software at: http://www.h-k.de

Further information about the Firebird SQL database and the Firebird Foundation can be found here: http://www.firebirdsql.org

The results of the Sourceforge Choice Community Award can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/

Contact:

HK-Software Holger Klemt
Oldenburger Strasse 233
26203 Wardenburg
Germany
Telefon: +49 (0) 700 42397378
Telefax: +49 (0) 700 42397378
info@h-k.de
www.h-k.de

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Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for Fedora Core 6

September 19, 2007 Oleg Deribas Leave a comment

Arkady Shejn have built Fedora Core 6 Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for i386 and x86_64.
Testers are welcome.

Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for Fedora 7

September 14, 2007 Oleg Deribas Leave a comment

Arkady Shejn have created Fedora 7 Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for i386 and x86_64.
Testers are welcome.

flamerobin/firebird livecd+bootable usb key with mandriva this time

September 12, 2007 mariuz One comment

I made a Mandriva Live CD with Firebird

Inside is Mandriva 2007.1, Firebird 2.0.1 Classic, Flamerobin, Ibwebadmin,
kinterbasdb.

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New conferences page

August 31, 2007 Cantu Leave a comment

The main Firebird site now has a page dedicated for listing future conferences and seminars. You can check it here.

Firebird Data Wizard 7.8 released

August 29, 2007 SQL Maestro Team Leave a comment

Firebird Data Wizard by SQL Maestro Group

SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard 7.8, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management.

New version features:

ASP.NET Generator Wizard is implemented.
New Shell Application with Ribbon toolbars (like Office 2007) and more.
Unicode/UTF-8 support.
PHP Generator: now it is possible to create a lookup menu for a column using a custom value list (not only foreign keys).
Data Pump: now optimized for Microsoft.Jet engine.
Data Import: the speed of loading of Excel files was significantly increased.
All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.

There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc), see http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4457/

EMS Data Export 3.0 released

August 28, 2007 EMS Database Management Solutions Leave a comment

EMS Database Management Solutions is pleased to announce a new version of EMS Data Export 2007 for InterBase/Firebird version 3.0. EMS Data Export for InterBase/Firebird is a powerful program to export your data quickly from Interbase/Firebird databases to any of 19 available formats, including MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word (RTF), HTML, XML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, ODF and others. Data Export for InterBase/Firebird includes a wizard, which allows you to set export options for each table visually (destination filename, exported fields, data formats, and much more) and a command line utility to export data from tables and queries in one-touch..

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

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phpBB3 Release Candidate 5 (RC5) released

August 27, 2007 mariuz Leave a comment

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 RC5 package. This is the fifth (and hopefully last) release candidate which is meant to become the Gold release if no more critical problems arise.

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