CodeGear Delphi Field Test opening
Since many FB users are also Delphi users, it may be interesting to know that CodeGear is opening the Delphi field test group to accept new members. 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!
New Grant Allocation for Core Coding
From the Firebird Foundation blog:
The Committee announces that it has approved a new allocation to assist with the work-up and
codebase familiarisation of a “trainee” for Firebird core development.The new allocation has been assigned to Alex Krutyakov, a highly
skilled C++ developer from Moscow. His work-up will be supervised
directly by our code leader Dmitry Yemanov, for a period of six months.
Dmitry plans to ask Alex to work on several of the new modules for
Firebird 3, including:
- Large Exact Numeric support
- Built-in functions
- Shared-disk clustering research
- External database links
We extend a cordial welcome to Alex Krutyakov, who officially joins the core team on Thursday (Feb. 1st).
Firebird 1.5.4 is released
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that v.1.5.4 of Firebird for Windows and Linux is now released and awaiting your pleasure. Kits should be available from many sites today and more over the weekend.
A number of additional retrospective fixes have been introduced for bugs that became apparent and were fixed in the Firebird 2 tree during the Firebird 2.0 beta cycle.
This is probably the final sub-release of Firebird 1.5.x. It adds no new functionality, although building the software for both Classic and SuperServer for HP-UX11 is now supported.
The Firebird Team
Want to run Firebird on Windows Vista?
Check out this blog post from Dmitry Kouzmenko about how to run FB on Vista and not loose performance.
The Ideal Database for Your Business?
This paper from CodeGear tries to convince users that InterBase 2007 is the best database for them. It even mentions “alternatives” like MySQL, PostgreSQL and …FIREBIRD 1.5!
Of course, like any marketing paper, it tries to show that IB is the best option 
But it is curious that they decided to compare IB 2007 with FB 1.5 (instead of 2.0). Also, it seems that most of their “complaints” about FB, like the lack of SMP support, etc. are features that are currently being merged from Vulcan into Firebird 3. The matter of Firebird not having an official support “entity” is shown as a “problem”, but I totally disagree with this, since there is a huge and very active community offering (very good) support for free in discussion lists, and some comercial companies too. I believe that currently Firebird support is even better than IB support from CodeGear.
Anyway, the simple fact that FB is mentioned probably will attract some attention to the project
FB wishlist in Indonesia
There is a discussion going on in a Indonesian Delphi forum about Firebird wishlist. You can check it here.
Choosing the right database management system
Article published in ComputerWeekly mentions Firebird.
Vote in our new poll!
I would like to request that every FirebirdNews visitor vote in our (new) poll. You can do this just looking at the sidebar (visible in the main page), choosing your answer and clicking “Vote”. Very quick and easy.
nBackup tests
Dmitry Kouzmenko writes about new nBackup tool in his blog.
Evans Data Survey mentions Firebird
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Ed. Note: Firebird is mentioned in 3 questions.