Author: Cantu

I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!

Hewlett-Packard Violating our Trademark Rights

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Hewlett-Packard has been reported as about to announce a new gaming appliance named “Firebird”. Any computer-related product is in Class 9, the same class in which “Firebird” is a protected mark registered to the Foundation. Someone at HP didn’t do his homework! Hewlett-Packard (Australia) Pty Ltd has been sent a letter by registered mail informing them of the violation and the need to ensure that the parent company knows it cannot use our trademark.

Source: Firebird Foundation blog

Firebird Roadmap for 2009

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The project is happy to share our development plans for the next year in the updated roadmap.

We’ll do our best following the schedule, but please keep in mind that the progress also depends on your field-testing feedback. We surely appreciate any assistance in this area, thank you in advance.

Dmitry Yemanov
Firebird Project

Interviews in the 5th FDD

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A new set of  interviews done by HardSoft TV during the 5th Firebird Developers Day in Brazil is now online. You need to use Internet Explorer to watch the videos. Unfortunately, there is no way to “fast forward” it, so you need to watch the video until the “interesting” part arrives (usually after the introduction, at 40% of the timeline) 😉

PS: Audio is in portuguese. Images are nice!

The Firebird wine

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Firebird Wine

Looks like “Firebirdians” already have an official wine 😉 Firebird Legend, from Moldova, proved to be a really good wine, at last for the taste of some Firebird users (including myself).

Afterall, with this name, it could not be different! 🙂

FB 2.5 delays

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People probably noticed that second alpha (or maybe first beta) of FB 2.5 is a bit delayed. The reason is that the Trace API feature is being “investigated”, and probably will be included in the next release. This is a nice feature first developed by RedSoft, allowing to “log” everything that is taking place in the Firebird server.

Embarcadero/CodeGear officialy interested in Firebird

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Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the closing session of CodeRage (an intl on-line conference done by Embarcadero/CodeGear):

The Closing Keynote was given by Embarcadero CEO Wayne Williams and was very interesting[…]Two noticeable things. First, an official reference to Firebird as a database they want to invest to. I guess better Delphi connectivity and DatabaseGear support might come to this database, but it is just my speculation.

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