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Do you use TIME and TIMESTAMP in your applications? The new IBProvider version will further simplify your work!

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Have you ever lost microseconds when working with the type TIME?
Definitely, if you have ever tried to use them. In the previous versions of IBProvider, time was stored in OLE DB structure of DBTYPE_DBTIME type that does not support fractions of a second.


In the new IBProvider version, time data types have been improved. The new properties dbtime_rules and dbtimestamp_rules allow to set time storage not only in DBTIME/DBTIMESTAMP but also in WSTR and in the new type of MS SQL 2008 – DBTIME2 without losing milliseconds.


Please, read more and download new IBProvider Professional right now: Download Firebird OLE DB driver.

Firebird 3.0 #Debian Preliminary packaging is available in #Experimental

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This package is meant to enter experimental, due to the high pace of upstream
development. Its goal is to provide easy testing of the new features of
Firebird and to have early exposure of the packaging helping to discover any
problems.

firebird3.0 is the third group of packages for Firebird. Squeeze is going to
release with firebird2.1 and firebird2.5. The plan for wheezy is to drop
firebird2.1 and add firebird3.0, if that has proven stable by the time wheezy
approaches releasable state.

Preliminary packagiing is available at
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/3.0.git;a=summary

#Python 2.7 version of the driver for #Windows #x86-32 and #x64 is released

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here are the download links :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-python/kinterbasdb%203.3/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win32-py2.7.msi/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-python/kinterbasdb%203.3/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win-amd64-py2.7.msi/download

Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010.

Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1

Firebird supports all the #Debian #Linux main Architectures

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With latest patches for hppa and alpha in Firebird 2.5 and Firebird 3.0 main tree Firebird supports all the Main Debian Architectures

All the cpus are supported now if in the next round of
buildd logs hppa and alpha cpu will be ok (green) minus the HURD thing 🙂

https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.5
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firebird2.5&suite=experimental

You can consult the list of supported architectures from last year and you can see the progress

Already ported:

    i386
    amd64
    mipsel
    sparc
    powerpc
    kfreebsd-i386
    kfreebsd-amd64
    arm
    ia64
    mips
    s390 = IBM/S390
    superH (sh4)
    alpha
    hppa

Minor ports that are not supported by Debian Main but we will try to do it anyway :

m68k
hurd
avr

ps:
So you can install firebird on the phone (maemo, meego or chrooted debian on android) or on the mainframe linux (ibm s390)

Firebird Foundation recent news

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News from the Firebird Foundation:

Wed 13 Oct 2010 09:00:00 GMT New Platinum Sponsor Secretary
Development-X Ltd, of Auckland, New Zealand is a new Platinum sponsor. Thank you, Liz and Jeff Keith. Jeff tells me he is looking forward to meeting up with any Foundation members present at the IBExpert conference next month in Bremen, Germany.
Wed 6 Oct 2010 10:00:00 GMT Martens & Prahl Gold Sponsorship Secretary
Martens & Prahl has resumed its Gold sponsorship. Thank you, Thomas Beckmann, for facilitating this.
Wed 6 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT Revival of ODBC Driver Sponsorship Secretary
DRB Systems Inc. CEO Steve Summers (also our Vice-President and a Gold sponsor already) has offered a goodly sum of $$$ to encourage a “kick-start” to resume development of the ODBC driver, to complete the v.2.0 release and get the v.2.1 driver well under way. Offer is made in combination with the reassignment of the FF grant allocation for this development, which has been lying fallow for a few years. A proposal has been made to a very capable developer and we await his acceptance.
Mon 4 Oct 2010 15:00:00 GMT Firebird 2.5 Release Everyone
We congratulate the Project team for releasing a great new version of Firebird today, v.2.5. We note that the Mind the Bird people are busy organising press releases and webinars to mark the day.
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