David Intersimone from Imprise,Borland Embarcadero wrote:
InterBase (and Firebird) will be supported in upcoming releases (this year and into early next year) all of the database tool products.
Here is the full blog about firebird support request (in the comments area)
The sixth edition of the Brazilian Firebird Developers Day will be held in Piracicaba at the next 4th of July.
And there’s news this year
I’m happy to announce, after about 47 000 000 seconds of thinking and development, release of FirebirdClient 2.5. This new shiny release contains … [read more]
Here is the guide (in Italian) for installing Firebird and Python driver on Ubuntu
Guide is written in Italian language but it’s easy to follow it
It’s official now, Philippe Makowski is the maintainer of Firebird packages for Fedora and Epel (Centos and RHEL packages) and Firebird packages get pushed into Fedora repositories.
Here is the guide for Centos5.3 you must enable the epel-testing for centos
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
This is done by editing the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo file (installed by the previous rpm command) and changing the first “enabled=0” to “enabled=1”.
Please PHP users tests this repository for fedora linux 10/11 also for Centos 5.3
http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2009/05/08/PHP-5.3.0-RC2-en
if you find bug, report here : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499036
Looks like the job is already done… Paul wrote on the blog . It was posted on devel-mailing list related to solaris threading using pthreads
“I confirm that the issues are fixed in HEAD. I confirmed this on 64-bit Solaris Sparc, built with the Sun Studio native compiler – using pthreads!!!”
How cool is that! Thanks very much guys for the quick turn-around.
Also, big thanks to Alex for his assitance with this port!!”
JbConsole is a Firebird console tool. I have tested with Jython 2.5b3 and Jaybird 2.1.6 .
(java 1.6 on Windows XP and java 1.5 on OS X 10.5)
It’s still toy level, but it seems to be sample implementation of Jaybird and Jython.
http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nakagami/Download/JbConsole_0_2_0.zip
See the screen shot
http://nakagami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2009-02-09
ED:Translated with google , I like his words about Jython
Swing and Java (JVM) I fast. 驚いた。 I was surprised.
my blog entry doesn’t show up yet, so a more information about that here …
I’ve made a ready-to-use TPC-H benchmark package for Firebird available
for download here:
http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/misc/tpch/tpch_firebird.zip
Feel free to use this package to benchmark your Firebird environment in
different server configurations, various page sizes, page buffers, …
Please read the included readme.txt file. This shall have everything
included for running the benchmark. I would highly appreciate if you
could share your results as described in 6) in the readme.txt.
If you have any questions, doubts, feel free to get in touch with me.
Thanks.
