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New high volume Firebird based web site – CyberEars.com

August 7, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

August 3rd 2006

Tech Solutions Inc., in a joint venture with Alesis Corporation, announce
the new audio media and Podcast hosting website CyberEars.com built on the Firebird 1.5 SQL database

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Alesis Corporation, famous for revolutionizing the home recording studio
industry with its ADAT products, amongst countless other products for the home recording market, are about to release a new product line aimed at home Podcasters. These products are called ‘The Alesis Podcasting Kits’. By simplifying the processing of creating high quality audio without sacrificing the power of a full mixing console, high quality microphone, software and headphones, Alesis have been able to bundle a system comprising hardware and software for those who want to record their own Podcasts at home for under $US 500.00. This product range is expected to be a blockbuster product for Alesis.

However creating an audio recording for anyone won’t work unless it can be released to the world. In May 2006, Alesis contacted Scottsdale, Arizona based software company, Tech Solutions Inc., to enter into a joint venture to develop a website that would make the process of releasing Podcasts to the world a simple one. The result of this partnership is the CyberEars.com website.

CyberEars.com is a simple way where any audio creator can upload their audio content and release it to the world. Audio can be released both on the CyberEars.com site for anyone to download or listen to online, or can be also released as a Podcast. CyberEars.com takes care of generating the RSS XML content, and provides a series of tools to audio creators to promote and manage their audio. By focusing on simplicity, CyberEars.com is designed for anyone with something to say to be able to broadcast it over the Internet without any technical understanding required.

Creator of CyberEars.com, Myles Wakeham, Director of Engineering at Tech Solutions Inc., said “I know what its like for those that want to create their own audio and release it. Having done my own Podcasts in the past, and with an extensive background in the professional audio industry, there has always been a large gap between high quality, professionally recorded content, and the home recording studio. Alesis made creating high quality recordings possible at a low price with the ADAT technology over 15 years ago and revolutionized the recording process. And we believe they are doing it again for Podcasters. But without a way to release and promote their content, the Podcaster will never get heard. We are proud to contribute to the evolution of the home recording enthusiast with CyberEars.com and look forward to long and successful partnership with Alesis Corporation in this venture”, stated Mr. Wakeham.

“CyberEars.com uses the latest in secure and rugged Internet technology and prides itself on being built on Firebird 1.5 SQL database on Linux. Through the power of open source technology such as Firebird, we have been able to deliver a solution for Alesis quickly and yet feel confident that CyberEars.com can withstand the huge volume of visitors that we anticipate along with the release of the Alesis Podcasting Kit. We are already seeing high volume traffic through our server farm, and know that Firebird is able to keep up with every transaction. The level of statistics that we gather on each listener’s preference and feed this information back to our customers on CyberEars.com requires a database of immense power and we were
only confident in the Firebird platform to meet this need.”, said Mr.
Wakeham.

CyberEars.com is due to go live on September 1st 2006, however it has been made available to the general public beforehand. A free trial subscription is available to all users and rates for audio hosting begin at the low price of $4.95 per month with unlimited bandwidth provided for even the smallest account option available.

The Alesis Podcasting Kits are expected to be available throughout most
consumer electronic stores worldwide in September 2006 also. They will also be available through music instrument shops worldwide.

For more information, contact Tech Solutions Inc. at info@techsol.org or via their website at http://www.techsol.org
Alesis Corporation’s website is http://www.alesis.com

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Huge success case using Firebird!

August 3, 2006 Cantu One comment

DBA Software, provider of manufacturing (MRP) solutions for small business, announced that its decision two years ago to base its flagship product, DBA Manufacturing Next-Generation, on the Firebird open-source SQL database has been an unqualified success.
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“Our free single-user system, which anyone can download from our Website, is testimony to Firebird’s ease of installation,” continued Zumwalt. “Over the past 18 months, more than 10,000 companies have downloaded and successfully installed our manufacturing software without any support assistance.”

Read full article here.

Tassie newspaper tames open source Firebird

July 21, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

ComputerWorld site published an article about Firebird:
Weeks praised Firebird’s “super server” architecture, which is a “drop-in replacement” for MySQL and can do whatever MySQL can do “with its eyes closed”. – Read full article here.

Yet Another Real World User

July 12, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

I have a HP Proliant ML350 with 2x80G HD (admitably bit of an overkill for my needs) which I am using as a file server for an office comprising of about 10 PC’s. Currently the OS is Fedora 4. I have firebird database running as the backend of a point of sale software.

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who is working with firebird – real world blogs

July 11, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

Work undertaken:

Today I created a small VS 2005 demo project in order to understand how to silently deploy and update an embedded Firebird database using ClickOnce technology. This helped me to gain a basic understanding of the key concepts. Tomorrow I intend to continue this work by considering some more advanced scenarios.

OpenDBX 1.1.2 released – firebird support added

July 10, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

I can proudly announce that this release of the OpenDBX library contains a fully featured and stable backend for firebird/interbase database servers which works well with both, the classic server and the newer firebird threaded server (often called “firebird super server”). Using the firebird/interbase client library correctly is one of the more challenging tasks and therefore great news for the OpenDBX project.

* More information about OpenDBX
* Download OpenDBX

blog of the day about firebird rc3

July 7, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

We actually have been deploying only super-servers, on beefy boxes with 2x dual core with 2x HT each (8x processing unit in total), because of our lack of experience in classic servers. Well, those server boxes do run other applications so you don’t get CPUs sitting there doing nothing, but I still wonder which one will be more suitable — one single super-server with shared page cache pool that can only utilise one CPU core, or multiple classic server instances that have their own page cache. However we do have up to 160 concurrent connections to the database on some of our boxes. Not sure how Win2k3 will perform with this kind of process count. Damn! Wish we can deploy them onto Linux boxes.

django added firebird support

June 30, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

[ED:django is like RoR implemented in python]
Just attached the firebird backend and a patch file. Firebird has a problem, names can’t bigger than 31 chars for tables, fields, constraints, etc. In auth app needed to change user_premissions to permissions so the many to many table name doens’t get too big… must be a way we can workaround this…

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GnuGk 2.2.4 released

June 30, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

GnuGk 2.2.4 has been released.[ED:Nice thing is that you can keep passwords for users in firebird database]
The GNU Gatekeeper (GnuGk) is a full featured H.323 gatekeeper, available freely under GPL license. It forms the basis for a free IP telephony system (VOIP).

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INM VizionDB uses Firebird

June 29, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

INM VizionDB is the first database management tool designed to meet the needs of skilled programmers, creative individuals and everyone in between by combining leading-edge database technology and support for the creation of engaging interfaces within Macromedia Director.
Built on a solid foundation of renowned, industry-standard Firebird database technology, INM VizionDB supports SQL and additionally offers a Lingo API, familiar to Director developers.
Read more here.

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