New IBProvider releases have appeared
Visual Studio 2008 support and DTC support were improved, known bugs were fixed and Firebird/Interbase compatibility was enhanced. More information here.
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!
Einstein teaching Firebird
Einstein, a group of universities in Brazil, is now offering extension courses based on Firebird:
- Firebird database management
- Advanced SQL – Triggers, Stored Procedures and UDF
More information here (in portuguese).
[ED]I know that a lot of universities here in Brazil uses Firebird as the default database for their computing courses, but it is the first time I see one of them offering extension courses based only in Firebird.
Borland/CodeGear dbExpress driver for Firebird?
In the latest days, some messages coming from a CodeGear person were posted in some Brazilian’s Delphi/Firebird discussions lists, asking for users to report any problem related to the use of the new DBX4 drivers (coming with Delphi 2007) and Firebird.
Previously, FirebirdNews reported that in the latest Brazilian BorCon (2007), it was told that BOR/CG would probably release a Firebird compatible dbExpress driver. Seems that things are really moving in this way.
Rebuilt Firebird 2.0.3 MacOSX Superserver Kits
New kits for the Superserver installations on both i386 and PPC can be downloaded now. No changes to the engine but an installer problem has been fixed.
Newsgroup using FB
It seems that Marco Cantu has coded his own newsgroup application (Delphi/Kylix app) using Firebird for storage. You can get more details here.
Delphi 2008 survey
CodeGear is running an on-line survey about what customers would like to see in Delphi 2008. One of the questions: “Which databases do you require Delphi connectivity with?”
Firebird is among the choices so, it’s time to show to CodeGear the real need for official drivers supporting Firebird in Delphi. Vote now!
ODBC or OLEDB?
If you wanna know what is the best option to be used with Firebird, check this article from IBProvider.
Firebird 2.1RC1 is out
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the first V.2.1 release candidate are now available – Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit platforms now, MacOSX soon. You are invited to test it furiously and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel list.
As always, please be patient if the files you want haven’t made it out to the mirrors at your first attempt.
2008 Roadmap
The Firebird’s 2008 Roadmap is now public available.
Sun buys MySQL = opportunity to Firebird
Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. Among his considerations, Marco see this as a good opportunity to Firebird, a trully OpenSource project (and product):
I think this is another great opportunity for a truly open source and fully independent database like FireBird (and to a much lesser extend for InterBase)