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Firebird being used in Russian software for banks

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Russian company specialized on bank software develops lite version of it’s OLAP and datawarehouse project “Nostradamus” based on Firebird open source RDBMS. Full-featured version of “Nostradamus” software based on Oracle 8i (and later versions) DBMS was maid compatible with Firebird in mostly used aspects, such as visual database table and view editor, glossary system, data sources and receivers with server-side logs support, reports etc. Basically this software is a toolkit for rapid development of applied solutions. Since January, 2006 Nostradamus Lite is used as a smart client for IAS reports production in 56 branches of one of largest Russian banks all over Russian Federation. Russian version 3.5.2 is available, international version is being developed. Company web-site (in russian) http://www.prbank.ru

Regards,
Tagir Bilalov (brutaltag)
brutaltag@gmail.com
btf@prbank.ru

FlameRobin enters Debian/unstable

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Hi, everybody,

Finally, flamerobin 0.7.2 entered Debian/unstable.

After comments/suggestions from Marius Popa, Tamas Tevesz, Yavor Doganov and Kari Pahula and lots of help from FR/IBPP developers, flamerobin got into the official Debian archive. Actual upload was kindly sponsored by Thijs Kinkhorst.

Binary package is available for i386 and amd64 architectures.

Web-based help desk software using Firebird

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Help Desk for IIS is a web-based help desk software solution for delivering customer service and support. It easily installs on your web server as an ISAPI extension for Microsoft Internet Information Services. Your customers or technicians need no additional software other than a web browser. All information is stored in a relational database (Firebird), and the web pages themselves are produced by a server-side ISAPI extension.

More information here.

Firebird 2.0 Debian packages

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Hi, everybody,

After much delay, I’ve finally prepared debian packages of 2.0 branch of firebird. They can be reached at [1]. This is the RC4 release from 13th of August.

These packages conflict with 1.5.3 series, so if you want to give your databases a try (strongly encouraged), backup them with 1.5.3 *before* installing 2.0 packages.

Please give these a hard time testing and don’t forget to send feedback to pkg-firebird-general@lists.alioth.debian.org. Reading Release Notes[2] would help avoiding common problems.

KInterbasDB 3.2 is released

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KInterbasDB is a Python extension package that implements Python Database API 2.0-compliant support for the open source relational database Firebird and some versions of its proprietary cousin Borland Interbase. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, KInterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine.

KInterbasDB is free–covered by a permissive BSD-style license that both commercial and noncommercial users should find agreeable.

What’s new in release 3.2?

RC4 is out… and, there will be RC5.

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Release Candidate 4 for Firebird 2.0 should start to appear in the mirrors today. Unfortunately, due to a late-breaking issue that was reported and confirmed after these builds were in the system, it should not be treated as production-ready, yet.

The issue has been addressed and is undergoing QA now. RC 5 should appear before the end of the month. In the meantime, please look at the fixes between RC3 and RC4 and check that any issues you had have been satisfactorily resolved.

SAP and in-memory DBs

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While SAP has no designs to be a database vendor—it tried and failed with MaxDB, which is now part of the MySQL community—sources close to the company have suggested that SAP could be working on a hybrid approach or something similar. “Basically there is no reason SAP couldn’t work with IBM and others on making [in-memory] work well on hardware,” said a source close to the company who requested anonymity. “Probably that’s the company that would be the most benefited. The vendor that [it] would be most disruptive for would be Oracle.”

Read full article here.

EdNote: Would Firebird be a good candidate?

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