New conferences page
The main Firebird site now has a page dedicated for listing future conferences and seminars. You can check it here.
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird Data Wizard 7.8 released
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard 7.8, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management. |
New version features:
- ASP.NET Generator Wizard is implemented.
- New Shell Application with Ribbon toolbars (like Office 2007) and more.
- Unicode/UTF-8 support.
- PHP Generator: now it is possible to create a lookup menu for a column using a custom value list (not only foreign keys).
- Data Pump: now optimized for Microsoft.Jet engine.
- Data Import: the speed of loading of Excel files was significantly increased.
- All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.
There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc), see http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4457/
EMS Data Export 3.0 released
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EMS Database Management Solutions is pleased to announce a new version of EMS Data Export 2007 for InterBase/Firebird version 3.0. EMS Data Export for InterBase/Firebird is a powerful program to export your data quickly from Interbase/Firebird databases to any of 19 available formats, including MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word (RTF), HTML, XML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, ODF and others. Data Export for InterBase/Firebird includes a wizard, which allows you to set export options for each table visually (destination filename, exported fields, data formats, and much more) and a command line utility to export data from tables and queries in one-touch.. You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/dataexport/download |
phpBB3 Release Candidate 5 (RC5) released
We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 RC5 package. This is the fifth (and hopefully last) release candidate which is meant to become the Gold release if no more critical problems arise.
mojoPortal 2.2.3.4 Release
I’m happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.2.3.4, its available now on the download page. [ED:with automatic schema creation and upgrade working in Firebird]
Devrace announce availability of BlazeTop version 1.8.0.125
Devrace announce availability of BlazeTop version 1.8.0.125 with 11
new features and 6 bug fixes.
BlazeTop (former SQLHammer), a tool for database development and administration. Its highly effective ideology has been elaborated due to close cooperation with professional database developers and administrators. It mainly uses a module model similar to that of Delphi/C++Builder, and thus its interface is absolutely handy for its users. BlazeTop architecture is based on component and dynamic module style that enables us to support different database servers and engines. The current BlazeTop version supports Borland InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil
osFinancials RC5 for version 2.0 available
The development team does believe we are hitting this 2.0 series in a short time from now, expected around the 1sth of September.
In the meantime we encourage you to test this RC5 version to the limit and report any defect found to the bug tracker so we are able to address your found defect.
MySQL Takes Another Step (Away from Open Source)
In the ongoing effort to convert more users into paying customers, MySQL announced today that they are no longer making the source code tarball for their Enterprise server publicly available. You could see this coming from a million miles away.
http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2007/08/mysql-takes-another-step-away-from-open-source.html [ED: so this could be more space for firebird in open source enterprise area]
US$ 1.3K donated to Firebird Foundation
Firebird – double winner of SourceForget Community Awards!
From InfoWorld:
SourceForge unveils the winners of the ‘open-source Oscars’
“…The Firebird relational database was another double winner, being voted both best project for the enterprise and the project providing the best user support.”
Congratulations for all who made this possible: The Firebird Project and all the people who voted!
Read full article here.