Firebird related news
CodeGear is running an on-line survey about what customers would like to see in Delphi 2008. One of the questions: “Which databases do you require Delphi connectivity with?”
Firebird is among the choices so, it’s time to show to CodeGear the real need for official drivers supporting Firebird in Delphi. Vote now!
I modified fb_embedded2.pas originally written for Delphi by Fikret Hasovic. Now it works with Lazarus!
Jiri wrote on the mailing list
I have a great news for you. 🙂 I’ve got offer from Paul Beach to
continue with developement of NETProvider as lead and maintaining it
etc. I’ve accepted and I’ve got some privileges to do the “maintaining
work”. So the project isn’t dead. I hope we’ll kick-up the FB & .NET.
🙂
you can check the php lists stats that are related to firebird
Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. Among his considerations, Marco see this as a good opportunity to Firebird, a trully OpenSource project (and product):
I think this is another great opportunity for a truly open source and fully independent database like FireBird (and to a much lesser extend for InterBase)
Milan Babuskov added support for Blobs in flamerobin , We have now an poll where we ask how to display the Blob content (on the right side of the site) You can test the new features using the snapshots If you don’t want to build FlameRobin from the sources, but still want to run the bleeding edge version, you can fetch the latest binary snapshot builds from the download section.
Today Bas-X Business Management Services of Queensland, Australia, established a new gold sponsorship. Thanks to Bas-X™ Managing Director Tony Wilder and welcome to the Foundation.
Here is an example on working with ibase/firebird extension in php
O servidor onde o site da FireBase estava hospedado mudou, e com isso o IP também foi alterado. Quem estiver com dificuldades para acessar o site, favor atualizar o cache de DNS.
In English:
FireBase, major Firebird information portal in Brazil, has been moved to a new server. Please refresh all the DNS cache to be able to access the site.
The thread is on joelonsoftware.com and the question is about open source databases :
Quick issue, everyone. My company currently uses SQL Server, but we’re going to look at open-source databases because of MS’s crooked licensing rules (to be honest, they only have one SQL license, and are running it on a two-processor machine). They don’t want to shell out the extra $6,000 for another one, and I don’t blame them.
