Firebird supports viagra user :-)

Just kidding again. a friend of mine told me about an installation in his german insurance company that requires a firebird installation. After googling for some details i found that the german medical info system “gelbe liste” (yellow list) installs a firebird server with each installation. On their website i found some impressing details: http://www.mmi.de/fileadmin/download/Tarifkarten_2008.pdf
there are about 100000 doctors using this from CD ROM in germany and the company produces about 400000 CD ROMs for these users each year, every 3 month a new one.

again a very good background information for discussing with your management about “what is firebird?”.

See you

Holger Klemt

IBExpert and Firebird 2.1 64 Bit Roadshow in Germany
10.-14.12.2007 Anmeldung http://www.ibexpert.com/roadshow

New sponsor

From Firebird Foundation blog:

Wed 7 Nov 2007 01:30:00 GMT Upcoming New Platinum Sponsor Secretary
Great to have news from Great Lakes Data Systems, Inc., that they intend to become a Platinum sponsor, starting as soon as they can get a cheque to us from the USA. Thanks greatly to the team at GLDS.

“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.
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