This little article shows how to access Firebird databases by using the ZEOS component Library in version 6.1.5 (including Patches 1&2) and how to use these components in database applications. It does not matter if you use the “real” SQL-Server or the embedded version which is restricted to local held databases. A couple of examples (also migrated Delphi-BDE demos) shall explain how to use the ZEOS components.
http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net/snapshots/3.3/
You can read this thread about this release where Pavel Cisar explains his role for kinterbase project
Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones
The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey
http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg
Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian
http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0
The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the devel-thread
http://www.nabble.com/arm-port-patch-td16497801.html
When configuring a Windows machine for use by the Evolution™ payroll service-bureau system, a common step is installing the open-source Firebird database software; this Evo Tip details the process.
The Evolution Payroll service-bureau system from iSystems, LLC employs a three-tiered architecture, with the backend being one or more Linux servers running the Firebird SQL database. Evolution is able to split the load across multiple DB servers on a per-client basis. As Service Bureaus grow, it’s common to add new DB servers to the system, and this Evo Tip covers the steps required to take a fresh Fedora Core system and prepare it for Evolution.
We finally solved the last major problem in the Firebird 2.0x build for Solaris 10 AMD 64bit. Whenever we tried to include editline in the build isql_static would coredump. We tracked the problem down
I’m doing some performance tests today with our three different database backends: MySql, Firebird and SQL Server.
Flamerobin 0.8.6 is now accepted in the official ubuntu 8.04 hardy repository
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/utils/flamerobin
here is the distro list where flamerobin 0.8.6 is included
Debian http://packages.debian.org/lenny/flamerobin
Gentoo http://gentoo-portage.com/dev-db/flamerobin
I have created the ppa packages using the version 2.0 pre from cvs and it can be installed by an simple
$apt-get install ibwebadmin or with synaptic(gdebi)
http://jimicompot.blogspot.com/2008/04/ibwebadmin-20-added-to-ubuntu-ppa.html
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13170201/ibwebadmin_2.0-1ubuntu6_all.deb
FWIW: Firebird won the 2nd place in the Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008.
http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,47,nodeid,17,p,0.html
