firebird on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Beta)
There is an thread with running firebird with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Category: Worth Reading
Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
FB 2.0 on 3rd place
From Jiri Cincura:
On local conference (“Databazovy svet” – can be translated as “database world”) has been Firebird 2 awarded on 3rd place in database product of year competition.
Nomination was:
- Firebird 2
- IBM DB2 Universal Database 9 Enterprise Server Edition (IBM)
- Informix Dynamic Server 10 Enterprise Edition (IBM)
- MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (Microsoft)
- Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition (Oracle)
- PostgreSQL 8.2
- Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0 Enterprise Edition (Sybase)
MS got 1st place, 2nd Oracle and 3rd FB 😉
flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo
I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s
portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can
then
emerge flamerobin on Gentoo
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready
The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready, and available at this URL
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2.0-QuickStart.pdf
FirebirdClient (.net provider) v2.0.1 released
FirebirdClient v2.0.1, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET 2.0, and
mono is available for download.
Morfik Announces Pricing, Including a FREE Version
Morfik is poised to be the first AJAX RAD/IDE tool developer to go 1.0. Morfik is a traditional graphical development environment that takes the code you write in Java, C#, BASIC and Pascal, attaches the Firebird SQL database and Apache web server, and converts your graphical forms and code into HTML/JavaScript
You can digg it
Borland DTG Sponsors the Firebird Conference 2006
Hard to believe at first, but I [Marco Cantu] think this is a GREAT news. DevCo is sponsoring the FireBird Conference 2006 in Prague, in the coming month.
Firebird embedded database on Win 98
When using the Firebird database (version 1.5) on windows 98, or (specifically) when deploying applications using the Firebird database to computers with Windows 98. Here are some tips
OpenOffice.org Base support in jaybird
In order to improve the situation we have created a separate driver that contains workarounds for the issues in OpenOffice.org Base. This driver will be part of Jaybird 2.2 release, but the snapshot releases already contain the required code.
.net embedded firebird on vista report
It’s a winform .net 2 business app that is very data centric and we tested initially with the embedded FireBird database driver which I had a gut feeling was going to be trouble, but absolutely no problems at all and every aspect is significantly faster than on the same computer with the same hardware exactly but different operating systems.
you can read the full experience on code project