Here are some news about the next FB 3 releases time-frame, coming direct from Dmitry Yemanov:
We’re approaching Beta 1 (hopefully to be released in July), with one more Beta to follow and then RC appearing this Autumn, probably around the conference time.
Firebird Roadmap can be seen here.
The 11th edition of the Firebird Developers Day (Brazilian) Conference will happen in 30/August, in Piracicaba-SP. More details to be announced soon.
IBSurgeon guys published some pictures of the “All about transactions” seminar that just happened in Moscow. You may recognize some of our Firebird fellows there 
http://ib-aid.com/en/news/firebird-tour-in-moscow-june-4-2014
It seems that Clad Genius (intelligent software for posting ads in classified sites) uses Firebird.
Firebird Project is glad to announce Firebird Conference 2014: the most important international event devoted to FirebirdSQL. Firebird Conference 2014 will be a meeting point for all Firebird users and core developers of Firebird. It’s the best place to share and receive FirebirdSQL knowledge!
Firebird Conference 2014 will be October 24-25, 2014, in Prague, Czech Republic, in Clarion Congress Hotel (see details about its location).
There will be 2 simultaneous flows in the conference, during 2 full days.
More details about the Conference can be found in http://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2014/
Alex Peshkov commented in the fb-devel list that he plans to start working in a port of Firebird 3 for Android right after FB 3 Beta 1 is released. Beta 1 is supposed to be out in this quarter.
Citrix® EdgeSight™ is a performance and availability management solution for XenDesktop, XenApp and endpoint systems. EdgeSight monitors applications, devices, sessions, license usage, and the network in real time, allowing users to quickly analyze, resolve, and proactively prevent problems.
In the EdgeSight support page, we can find the following:
The EdgeSight agent is continuously monitoring every process that is running on the monitored device. In turn, it is continuously writing performance data to its local Firebird SQL database.
So, one more big company using Firebird.
How many more are out there, and we still don’t know? 
Firebird is on the cover of this month’s issue of C++Builder Developer’s Journal. The 2-part article inside, by Iskander Shafikov, discusses how to use Firebird in the C++Builder IDE.
You can view the preview cover at the BCBJ website for a limited time: http://bcbjournal.org/?loc=all_issues&vol=18
Freedom is an Open Source ERP developed in Brazil, using Java (allowing it to run in several Operating Systems) and Firebird as the database engine.
Sorry, only for Brazilians:
Os brasileiros que tiverem real interesse em participar da próxima edição do FDD podem responder a pesquisa que está online até o dia 21/Fevereiro, apontando suas preferências sobre data, temas, etc.
