Firebird random upgrade procedure between release canditates
Firebird upgrade procedure (rc3 to rc4 to rc5) in Japanese
http://xrl.us/r5n3 (Link to translate.google.com)
They have an link to a good firebird japanese wiki site
Category: Who is using FB?
Posts about softwares and people currently using Firebird as database engine
Npara uses Firebird
From code.google.com/p/npara/
Npara allows a user to find similar images or audio files
Npara identifies audio and video files by creating an index of sub fingerprints, aproximately 255 fingerprints per file. These fingerprints are stored in a firebird database.
Partial tracks or partial images can be recognized, even if they contain significant noise or distortion
Huge test case for Firebird at SOFTOOL’06
Alexey Kovyazin and Dmitry Yemanov were present at Softool 2006, showing a really big test drive for Firebird:
The test used a Russian ERP called Avarda connecting a Firebird 2.0 Classic server. Environment was 30 desktops and 1 power server imitating Avarda working with 100 simulatenous clients accessing a 120Gb Firebird database with 700 million records! Server was a SMP machine (2 CPUs – Dell PowerEdge 2950) and 6GB RAM.
You can see a small video from Softool with Alexey and Dmitry Yemanov here.
Who’s using Debian+Firebird?
Humanistisch Instituut voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, The Netherlands http://www.hivos.nl/
The organisation uses Debian GNU/Linux on half of their servers, i.e.
about 10 systems.
Firebird on Asus WL-HDD – doable ?
Asus WL-HDD is an mipsel machine so with custom firmware (linux toolchain) it may be possible to install firebird on it.
TimeSnapper now uses Firebird
TimeSnapper, winner of the Larkware contest (2005) now supports Firebird in its version 2.0, as you can see in the author’s blog.
There was a staggering amount of work in getting the details right for this release. We’ve got new forums, a proper installer (at last!), and we now use a firebird database to help you manage your data.
Ed: Thanks Fabio Alves for sending the news.
FBTalk – New Firebird powered Forum is UP
Just a quick note to let everyone know that FBTalk.net is now up and running using dnfBB, a forum designed around firebird. The old forum and all posts/topics are still available.
New software ported to Firebird:Zentrack and Galette
Here some news of Software Ports to Firebird :
Firebird Ported to gobolinux
Here is the active thread with the porting efforts . Gobolinux is an pretty interesting distro with new idea to packaging an application (the filesystem is the package manager)
nsFB 1.0 released – Firebird driver for AOL Server
nsFB is an internal AOLserver database driver for the Firebird or Interbase database.