Flash RAM instead of harddisks
Check the comments and you will find a very known “bird” ๐
Firebird related news
Check the comments and you will find a very known “bird” ๐
This webservice is able to clean up the mess in the SQL code style. Check the following link: http://www.sqlly.com/formatcode.html
This November there were 2 Firebird events in Czech Republic: Firebird Developers Day and Firebird and Fast Report seminar. It seems Firebird community is growing quickly in Czech Republic, and more and more professionals choose the universal open source database for their solutions.
Read more about Czech Events:
From Firebird Foundation blog:
Wed 7 Nov 2007 01:30:00 GMT | Upcoming New Platinum Sponsor | Secretary |
Great to have news from Great Lakes Data Systems, Inc., that they intend to become a Platinum sponsor, starting as soon as they can get a cheque to us from the USA. Thanks greatly to the team at GLDS. |
Translated from Erick Sasse blog:
This week I was in BorCon-BR and watched the Steve Shaugnessy’s talk , one of the person responsible for the database area in Delphi. He told that there will be a Borland/CodeGear’s “official” dbExpress driver for Firebird. The customers demand has now proven to justify the investment in the development of the driver. He didn’t give any details, and don’t know if the driver will be developed entirely by CodeGear or by someone from Firebird community with their help, but made it clear that it will be done. Finally, not?
mojoPortal has won “Best Other Open Source Content Management System” in the 2007 Open Source CMS Awards sponsored by PACKT Publishing. (Other means built on something other than PHP, mojoPortal is built on C# ASP.NET) [And works with firebird 2.0.x too]
Huge thanks to our community and the judges and the good folks at Packt Publishing for honoring us with this award!
but firebird does not support patents for software! just kidding ๐
The reason why i wrote this is because on the firebird conference i was informed by a visitor about http://www.epoline.org. He is working for one of the largest german patent lawyer companies that uses the firebird server since a long time already. Their main database has about 400GB of patent informations. Epoline ist the official software required by European Patent Office for submitting patents in all European Countries. He expects that there about 23000 patent lawyer in the EU who must use this software to submit patents. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.epoline.org (about 170MB) and it does install and use the firebird server 1.5. With this information we now know that there are at least 23000 additional firebird installations in Europe. I will try to get some more background informations from the people behind this software.
This infomation might be useful for discussions regarding firebird reference users.
See you on next firebird conference in 2008 or on the firebird 2008 world bbq tour
Holger Klemt
www.firebird-conference.com
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