Why so few developers are using Firebird SQL? vote on dzone
Why a RDBMS with so many features like Firebird SQL is so unpopular if compared to MySQL or PostgreSQL and what we can do to help this amazing project.
Why a RDBMS with so many features like Firebird SQL is so unpopular if compared to MySQL or PostgreSQL and what we can do to help this amazing project.
The planned two-day event at the Computing Center, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 8 – 9 May 2009 has been cancelled, unfortunately, due to the low number of people registering to attend.
Picture of the day on the Firebird events page
Mustapha Abubakar during his Firebird presentation at the Bayero University (in March)

Recently I started a new project in which I need to choose another database besides MySQL. Since then, I had been using MySQL for basically everything, but given the MySQL licensing scheme and a few restrictions of the project itself, this time I had to use something else. So I choose Firebird SQL.
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Delighted to see that the release notes for Firebird 2.5
include a Logic Change in SET Clause
Newest v2.1 version of FireFace.
New QT based IDE for Firebird Kevora
Recently, Kevora also supports Firebird or Interbase access. Despite this database does not have schemas, Kevora will place all objects below a “virtual” rdb$relations schema.
The tools we use to produce Kevora are:
Zend Framework seems that support the php_interbase adapter for Firebird , that means you can use it instead of the unstable pdo driver , News via stackoverflow