Firebird supports software for patents!

but firebird does not support patents for software! just kidding 🙂

The reason why i wrote this is because on the firebird conference i was informed by a visitor about http://www.epoline.org. He is working for one of the largest german patent lawyer companies that uses the firebird server since a long time already. Their main database has about 400GB of patent informations. Epoline ist the official software required by European Patent Office for submitting patents in all European Countries. He expects that there about 23000 patent lawyer in the EU who must use this software to submit patents. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.epoline.org (about 170MB) and it does install and use the firebird server 1.5. With this information we now know that there are at least 23000 additional firebird installations in Europe. I will try to get some more background informations from the people behind this software.

This infomation might be useful for discussions regarding firebird reference users.

See you on next firebird conference in 2008 or on the firebird 2008 world bbq tour

Holger Klemt
www.firebird-conference.com

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FB cluster for beggars

Currently, if server’s host has more than one IP, FB uses only
first one. Attached patch lets it use up to eight. It’ll allow to
establish Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers, just having added
more addresses to DNS, thus gaining fail-safety (or/and – if round-
robin turned on – load balancing).

Here is the patch and  the thread

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Taking the blinkers off

Iwas skimming and saw this article: Choosing the “Right” DBMS Engine. It piqued my interest because I’ve used a lot of databases over the years (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access, IDMSX, Btrieve, probably others I’ve forgotten) and as with anything, you only use a small number of them extensively at any one time so you quickly get out of date on the pros/cons of each (particularly as I’m not in the business software world any more so my DB usage has decreased). So, I thought this would be an interesting article to read if it compared and contrasted a few based on the current situation…

[ED:and here is what Steve  found in the article]

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Installing Perl DBI driver for Firebird RDBMS server

DBI driver for Firebird and RDBMS server is located in cpan
This was tested on ubuntu karmic with firebird 2.1 classic version installed (from repository)
also with perl module DBI aready installed

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EMS Data Import 2007 for InterBase/Firebird version 3.1 is now available

EMS Data Import

EMS Database Management Solutions are pleased announce new version of Data Import for InterBase/Firebird 2007 – a powerful tool to import your data quickly from MS Excel 97-2007, MS Access, DBF, XML, TXT, CSV, MS Word 2007, ODF and HTML files into your database tables.

EMS Data Import 2007 is available and can be downloaded from the download page

What’s new in Data Import for InterBase/Firebird 2007 version 3.1

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DB Comparer 2007 for InterBase/Firebird ver.3.0 released

EMS DB Comparer 2007 for InterBase/Firebird

EMS Database Management Solutions are pleased to announce
DB Comparer 2007 for InterBase/Firebird
– an excellent tool for database comparison and synchronization.

You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/dbcomparer/download

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