Category: General news

The Examiner Newspaper was approached to be a supporting partner in Ken
Gourlay’s solo sailing endeavour around the world as a fund raising effort
for research into eyesight disorders. Read more

New sessions in IBExpertLive! Free Firebird training and Conference videos online!

What is IBExpertLive?

HK-Software has implemented a streaming system based on the Firebird database
server, which publishes pictures and audio, as needed to view the presentations from
the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Firebird Conferences. There are also IBExpert
tutorial videos enabling you to learn more about working with Firebird and
InterBase with IBExpert. There is currently about 55GB of video data available,
with around 200 hours of firebird-related presentations from last two Firebird
Conferences and other events.
Read more

Devrace are happy to present you a new Consulting and Development Service.
In order to improve our service we have started a new consulting&development
department. It can help you if you need our advice on how:

1) to improve your code and avoid bugs
2) to increase the application performance and speed
3) to avoid problems using FIBPlus with third-party tools
4) to avoid problems with migration to further InterBase/Firebird versions
5) to save your time when coding some difficult tasks
etc.
Read more

Can be downloaded for testing (i.e. its not released)
from:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/Firebird-CS-2.0.pkg.zip
Right Click and Save As.

Any feedback appreciated.
Regards
Paul Beach

From the Sweet Mother of Databases dept.:The code for the Falcon Storage Engine for MySQL has been released as open source. Jim Starkey, known as the father of Interbase, is behind its creation; previously he was involved with the Firebird SQL database project.

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