Are you curious to see all the new internal functions that will be available in the shortcoming FB 2.1? If so, take a look here. Most of the functions were ported from Yaffil to FB 2.1. It seems that the porting job was finished by Adriano a few days ago. That’s really good news 
Core Lab Software Development has released new versions of the Data Access Components product line with support for Firebird 2. Read more here.
Tableau Software, the global leader in visual analysis software, today launched Tableau v3.0, the most powerful and easy to use data analysis software available. It is designed for information workers in all job functions and industries. Tableau v3.0 enables people to summarize and explore their everyday data with an intuitive interface that generates crisp visual displays.
Read more here.
The Brazilian magazine “Pequenas empresas & Grandes negócios” (something like Small enterprises & Big business) reviewed a few databases in its March/2007 edition. Firebird had an 8.0 but stayed behind PostgreSQL (8.7) and MySQL (8.5). It doesn’t say what was the criteria of analysis used in the ranking. One more time, the lack of default graphical administration utility was listed as a bad thing.
Info Exame is a major computer magazine publication in Brazil. In the April edition, they published a 2 pages review of FB 2. Although it is not a deep review, it is a good propaganda for FB. The “cons” listed are mostly lack of default graphical interface (maybe its time to include FlameRobin in the default installer?) and lack of good documentation.
Wp-db is the mini database abstraction layer for WordPress. It allows you to run WordPress on various database. Read more here.
The post “A Patent On An Ajax Generator? Ah, That Could Be Important” in InformationWeek Weblog talks about Morfik and mentions Firebird.
I found an interesting password generation (online) tool that even says how much time it will take for people break the generated password It may help to define good passwords for Firebird users accounts.
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that the first Alpha builds of Firebird V.2.1 are ready for testing. Binary and source kits for Linux and and some Win64 and Win32 kits should start appearing at the Sourceforge mirrors today. For a summary of new features and bug fixes, see HERE.
After a long delay, Microtec is pleased to announce the release of the long-awaited CopyCat version 2.0!
CopyCat is a set of Interbase/Firebird replication components for Delphi and C++Builder. Using CopyCat, you can easily build applications comprising advanced database replication capabilities, which can be deployed royalty-free.
For more information about this new release, click here.
General information about CopyCat : http://www.microtec.fr/copycat
