Firebird in CONISLI
Luiz Paulo will be doing a talk about Firebird at CONISLI (International Conference of Free Software) today in São Paulo. It is the first time that Firebird is being presented at the conference.
Category: Events/Conferences
Firebird events and conferences all over the world
Open Source Database Conference 2006
Holger Klemt (HK-Software) will have some talks at opendbcon about firebird and ibexpert
Russian Firebird Conference pictures
The first Russian Firebird and InterBase Conference was due in October 14th, 2006, and organized by iBase.ru, a well-known Firebird/InterBase company in Russia.
The conference gathered about 190 participants and 35 sponsors and speakers. It was an one day conference with 17 sessions, talking about Firebird 2.0, Firebird 2.1, InterBase 2007, Fyracle, FIBPlus, FastReport, IBProvider, IB/FB Developer’s Studio, different aspects of using Firebird and InterBase (performance optimization, database repair…), experience in creating billing and other systems.
In the intervals between sessions, people were able to talk with Firebird developers and other specialists close to Firebird and Interbase technologies.
Conference was a success, and we can expect the 2nd edition for the next year.
You can check pictures here (use Babelfish if you want to translated the pictures subtitles).
Borland DTG Sponsors the Firebird Conference 2006
Hard to believe at first, but I [Marco Cantu] think this is a GREAT news. DevCo is sponsoring the FireBird Conference 2006 in Prague, in the coming month.
DevCo sponsoring Prague conference
Today the sponsors of the Prague Firebird conference were announced.
The list includes the soon to be spun out “Developer Tool Group” at
Borland, a.k.a. DevCo.
Lazarus and FPC will be on the Systems 2006
Lazarus and FPC developers will be on the Systems 2006 in Munich in October in hall A3 booth 542. They will try to be there on all 5 days. You can find more information about the Systems 2006 here.
[Ed:you can meet the team and talk about the lazarus ide, oopascal , firebird , open source , free beer ;)]
MP3 of Firebird Conference 2005 are available
Audio from the sections of Firebird Conference 2005 are available in MP3 format here.
If you prefer Audio+Video, use IBExpertLive application.
Huge test case for Firebird at SOFTOOL’06
Alexey Kovyazin and Dmitry Yemanov were present at Softool 2006, showing a really big test drive for Firebird:
The test used a Russian ERP called Avarda connecting a Firebird 2.0 Classic server. Environment was 30 desktops and 1 power server imitating Avarda working with 100 simulatenous clients accessing a 120Gb Firebird database with 700 million records! Server was a SMP machine (2 CPUs – Dell PowerEdge 2950) and 6GB RAM.
You can see a small video from Softool with Alexey and Dmitry Yemanov here.
Migration from Ms-sql to Firebird call to story
We have an opportunity to have a session at Solution Linux 2007 (Paris)
I will talk about migration from MsSQL to Firebird
Two FB talks at the 7th DDD
I will be doing 2 talks about Firebird 2.0 in the 7th Delphi Developers Day, in São Paulo – Brazil, next saturday (30/September). The conference is promoted by DUG-BR and subscriptions can be done online in the DUG site.