The Firebird ADO .NET Data Provider 1.7.1 for .NET 1.1 and Mono 1.1 is available for for download.
Download information can be found here ·
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird COBOL users united
Stephen Boyd asked:
“Before you all go eeeewwww yuck who still uses COBOL, the answer is
lots of us. My immediate goal is to try to find out if there are many
Interbase / Firebird users who still use COBOL like we do.
[ED: you can read the full thread on Firebird-General mailing list]
SAS software and Firebird Vulcan
“This paper describes the architecture and requirements for implementing a relational, transaction-based storage mechanism in SAS software, a commercial business intelligence product that uses the Vulcan code base in an embedded mode.”
By Tom Cole, Platform R&D, SAS Institute Inc. (From the Firebird Conference Prague 2005). (.zip of two pdfs). Right click and save as to read.
ibpp.org – new site , new license , new version
The site ibpp.org has, again, changed.
Change of software (DokuWiki instead of MediaWiki) and change of hosting servers.
Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary
Firebird is included in the list of debian packages that must be fixed so it can be compiled without errors with GCC 4.1
New Firebird Developers’ Journal Starts
Dmitry Yemanov launches a Developers’ Journal where you can catch the latest comments from the core developers about how things are going.
New acronyms FLAPS , FWAP, FWIP
FLAPS is FLAP with Ssl (that is why S is at the end of word)
FWAP is an acronym for the combination Microsoft Windows, Apache, Firebird and one or more of Perl, PHP and Python. It is modelled after the more well-known FLAP, referring to the all-open source/free software approach which uses Linux instead of Windows.
FWIP is the WIMP equivalent (alias) with firebird used instead of mysql
MSSql difficult to configure? switch to firebird
However I don’t like MSSql server, first of all it is hard to configure, finding solutions to problems is not an easy task, it has lots of dependencies scattered around the hard disk. Hail mysql and firebird.
Let there be Fire – morfik site revamped , WebOS AppsBuilder released
Today I was glad to see the new website of Morfik Technology was unveiled. Along with a totally redesigned web site, comes the public release of a test version of the their WebOS AppsBuilder tool. These transformations probably reflect a move by Morfik, to bring the development of the WebOS AppsBuilder into the light, after being kept in the shadows for quite some time.
Ed:if you don’t know what is the link between firebird and morfik here is an e-mail interview with the Morfik team
Building Firebird 1.5 on Windows
You can read this how to