Firebird related news
I’m pleased to announce 2.5.0 Beta 1 for .NET 3.5/2.0 [with Entity
Framework support] version. It contains several bugfixes as well as
brand new Entity Framework support (still beta!). Looking forward to
your feedback.
Binary as well as sources can be downloaded from
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
Hewlett-Packard has been reported as about to announce a new gaming appliance named “Firebird”. Any computer-related product is in Class 9, the same class in which “Firebird” is a protected mark registered to the Foundation. Someone at HP didn’t do his homework! Hewlett-Packard (Australia) Pty Ltd has been sent a letter by registered mail informing them of the violation and the need to ensure that the parent company knows it cannot use our trademark.
Source: Firebird Foundation blog
We are very pleased to announce the availability of the “one year anniversary” phpBB 3.0.4 package
FirebirdNews wish a really Nice Christmas and a very Happy New Year to all the Firebird people, specially developers and supporters!
2009 will be a cool year, with the release of FB 2.5 and the first betas of 3.0 showing up! If you want to send a XMas gift to the project, you can do this right now contributing with the Firebird Foundation 
Go Firebird!
There was no good documentation [how to do it] but in fact was realy easy.
Looks like “Firebirdians” already have an official wine Firebird Legend, from Moldova, proved to be a really good wine, at last for the taste of some Firebird users (including myself).
Afterall, with this name, it could not be different! 
Hello *,
the firebird-net-provider subproject of Firebird project is proud to
announce release of version 1.7.2 of .NET Data Provider for .NET 1.1.
This release is only maintenance release. Contains only backported fix
for connecting to Firebird 2.1 server. No new features or other
bugfixes etc. were added.
You can download it from
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.
Seems to be an record for download/traffic stats at the sourceforge.net
for firebird project , see the monthly all time graphs
Exploring database delimited identifiers and case sensitivity: the effect of quoting table and field names in the various DBMS.
Article by Lorenzo Alberton
What is the difference between “select count(*) from sometable” and “select count(somefield) from sometable”?
