VM with FB+Ubuntu+Mondrian
There is a Firebird VMware applicance available for download. It contains: Ubuntu 8.04 x86, Firebird V2.1.1 (SuperServer) and Mondrian V3.0.4 with their foodmart example already set up with Firebird.
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!
Delphi 2009 is out
But still no “official” support for Firebird, as Nick Hodges states in this podcast. BUT, rumors says that there will be news about this in the future.
Anyway, Firebird users has tons of third party access components (IBO, FIBPlus, InterXpress, UIB, Zeos, etc. etc.) to be used with Delphi so, no official support doesn’t mean any big problem for us.
Check the press release information here. This is the first Delphi version released after CodeGear was sold to Embarcadero.
Get IBProvider with 20% discount!
All attendees of the 6th world-wide Firebird Conference can order IBProvider Professional Edition with 20% discount . Check more here.
Mondrian with Firebird – part 1
See how to set up Mondrian (Open Source OLAP server) to be used with Firebird, in Thomas Steinmaurer’s Blog
LewisC’s Database Survey
Ok, Firebird users, let’s make some noise!
Additional commentary on the open source database market
Read more in Alex Fletcher blog. The post is a special comment for his previous article “Thoughts on the open source database market“.
Forrester: Open source databases should be part of every database management system strategy
Open source technologies continue to make headway in the enterprise, and none more so, perhaps, than open source database management systems (DBMS).
Read full story here.
DROL Winner
The winner of the “Darwin Race of Languages” competition is Werewolf, who submited a nive GUI frontend for gbak (Windows and Linux), made in Delphi/Kylix. You can check more information and download it here.
Firebird Intl Conference (Italy) – Timetable is online
The timetable for the International Firebird Conference is now available in the official site. Register this week and get earlybird discount!
Servoy supports Firebird
For those tired of maintaining separate code bases for Web and desktop applications, Servoy offers a way to consolidate those code bases and cut development time in half.
Servoy apps can access many different databases, including Firebird.
More information here.