International Firebird Conference 2011 videos
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Jason Wharton talks about FBConference 2011
All,
I would just like to report to the IBO community that the Firebird Conference in Luxembourg was a great success. There were over 60 people in attendance and the sessions I attended were all very good. It’s amazing what is being done with Firebird and what is coming in the future. Things are looking very good. The IB Objects session was well attended and it felt like some useful things were learned even by some of the long-time customers. If anyone is interested, the entire session was recorded. I can see about getting permission to put it up on YouTube or to post an MP3 download of it on a file sharing site. Send me a private email.
I think most of the fun we had was getting a personal contact with all the people we rub cyber shoulders with every day. Hopefully in the future there will be more people to come and attend.
I would like to stress the importance of everyone who uses Firebird to consider being a member of the foundation. Your opinions truly matter and your financial contributions are an investment in Firebird’s success. All of those who develop Firebird are awesome people. I really enjoyed getting acquainted with them personally. I wish for them to have the means to be compensated financially for their efforts in Firebird. It could be a significant and justified temptation for them to get hired away from their efforts. The best way we can keep their brilliance and talent solely dedicated to Firebird is to give it the resources to secure their interests.
I am working on an idea to give a discount to all those who are members of the Firebird Foundation so if you have some ideas please let me know. I would like to be a strong supporter of Firebird as best I can so I am looking for ways to accomplish this.
Kind regards,
Jason Wharton
www.ibobjects.com
Source: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IBObjects/message/45720
Firebird + EXT4 + barrier 1/0 + FW ON/OFF
Philippe Makowski did some TPC tests and posted the results at fb-devel:
Hi,
I’m a bit puzzled by the results I get I made test on Fedora 16 with Kernel 3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64 on LVM2 Logical Volume of 10G
Firebird 2.5.1 Classic
hdparm /dev/vg_tests/testfb
/dev/vg_tests/testfb:
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
hdparm -Tt /dev/vg_tests/testfb
/dev/vg_tests/testfb:
Timing cached reads: 12976 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6496.46 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.02 seconds = 57.53 MB/sec
database : 1,8G
created with -w20
and buffers 1024
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Firebird mentioned in Evans Data survey
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FB Conference talks descriptions
Announcements of talks at Firebird Conference 2011 – talks from Dmitry Yemanov and Alex Peshkov: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2011-topics.
There will be more announcements soon – stay tuned!
There will be more announcements soon – stay tuned!
Recordings from 8th FDD
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).
Firebird 2.5.1 final is coming
Expect to see the final release of Firebird 2.5.1 coming out in the next days. There will be no RC2.
New case-study: Point of Sale Systems for the Carwash Industry
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.
Case Study: Moscow City Hospital
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.