Category: Who is using FB?
Posts about softwares and people currently using Firebird as database engine
Optimizing a Delphi 2009 app using Firebird 2.5 Alpha 1
The last few days I’ve spent optimizing an application written in Delphi 2009 that talks to a Firebird database using the standard TIBDatabase, TIBTransaction and TIBSQL components The application needs to do alot of reading/writing to the database, and was rather slow so I had to optimize it a little …The application is basically an Indy based Web-Server that receives simple GET parameters, does a thing or two in the DB and returns with the Success/Fail and a possible result from the DB.
FeedReader
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Version 3.14 beta was released and we can read:
We upgraded to new FirebirdSQL version. This version is faster and more stable.
Firebird Support in Drupal 7
drupal is used in many places (spreadfirefox for example) and now you can test and use with firebird
Telerik ORM supports Firebird
Telerik OpenAccess ORM Express – a lighter (free) version of the Telerik OpenAccess ORM tool, provides the same functionalities as the commercial one, but supports only the free databases, including Firebird.
Imabas 7.1 uses Firebird
Imabas images is a network database for amateurs as well as for professional photographers, who also defaulted desires fulfilled and your own photo archive safely in a SQL database […] For an Out-Of-The-Box will launch the software on the enclosed Firebird database.
Read original article (in German) or translated to english.
TurboCASH 4: Release Candidate1
The TurboCASH Project is proud to present our Release Candidate 1 for TurboCASH 4.0.1.10 This is the culmination of a years preparation to move TurboCASH to a new platform based on the Firebird database.
This release has been prepared to ship to 81 countries. The biggest change we have made here is to open up the the code for the input of a greater number of contributors. The plugin architecture has been widened to include Delphi dlls.
The program sports a revised user interface and improves data accessability. Included now is the Reportman Database reporter. TurboCASH 4 can run from a singel user embedded on a memory stick right up to 50 Plus users.
Morfik releases version 2.0 with Firebird 2.1 bundled
Morfik Technologies released, this week, version 2.0 of its flagship AppsBuilder product. The new release of the web application development tools adds a multitude of visual design oriented features.
In addition to these features, Morfik AppsBuilder 2.0 now includes Firebird 2.1 as its bundled database.
Listing the Foreign Keys in a Firebird Database
We have just completed the code to reverse engineer a Firebird database and build the class definitions used by the Habanero framework
Firebird 2.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 added to altlinux
Firebird 2.1.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 are added to altlinux.Also latest odbc driver for firebird and mono 2.0.1
AltLinux is an Linux distro that will be used in all the Russian Schools
Other related news about altlinux you can grab from google
[Ed:so this is a big thing , imagine that firebird will be available to every kid or school there , also in Brazil they will have linux on ~50,000,000 desktops for kids , what we need now is some good translated books and documentation]