The recordings of the talks of the 8th Brazilian Firebird Developers Day are now available at the FireBase store. The MegaPack DVD (containing the recordings of several FDD editions were also updated with the 8th FDD talks).
Expect to see the final release of Firebird 2.5.1 coming out in the next days. There will be no RC2.
A new case-study was added to FirebirdSQL site. It is always interesting to ready such articles, and know about other companies experiences with Firebird. This time it is about DRB Systems moving from InterBase 6 to Firebird to solve stability problems. Read more.
Take a look at the new case study published in the FirebirdSQL site. Interesting that they choosed Firebird over Oracle, and cost was not the only factor. Worth reading!
There are other case studies published in the site. Make sure to read them all, and if you have an interesting case to show, contact the moderator to know how to publish it there.
Now you can use www.firebirdsql.com to visit the official project site. The URL will forward you to www.firebirdsql.org
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that the v.2.5.1 release candidate kits for Linux and Windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are ready for testing. MacOSX kits are delayed by a problem with MacOSX 10.7 (Lion) but should appear soon. Enjoy! and please report bugs or regressions to the firebird-devel list.
The official report of the 8th Firebird Developers Day conference is now online, with lots of pictures. Report is available in English and Portuguese.
