Firebird NETProvider source moved to subversion
Sources has been moved to the subversion repository, they can be browsed here: http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/NETProvider/
Sources has been moved to the subversion repository, they can be browsed here: http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/NETProvider/
Is anyone using an embedded firebird database on Windows Vista?
[ED: new topic on discuss.joelonsoftware.com]
Dmitry Yemanov wrote on firebird devel-list :
We’re now busy with v1.5.4 and v2.0.1 point releases, so I wouldn’t expect v2.1 Alpha this month, but it will definitely be released in January.
Codice Software, authors of Plastic SCM (Source Control System) uses Firebird to store all the projects information data.
So then we decided Firebird would be an important part of the product. And I can tell you this is one of the decissions we never regret. BTW we wanted to have a full portable data layer (in terms of DB independency), so we also tried with Postgres (specially on Linux and Solaris) and later on with SQL Server. Results? Firebird is the easiest to deploy and has a very good performance ratio (and we always find ways to tune it even further), Postgres is a bit faster in some operations but extremely slow dealing with BLOB data and SQL Server is faster but much harder to deploy. So we are proud to tell that Firebird is a center piece of Plastic SCM.
Read full story here.
Here is the Download History Statistics for Firebird project (November was the best month if you ignore the anomaly for Jun 2005 )
The old Firebird-CS-1.5.1.pkg isn’t compatible with macosx Tiger, please
download the latest package from SF (1.5.3). That should work.
It points now to the right page
CodeGear, the Borland Developers Tool divison, now has its own site up and running. CodeGear will be responsable to continue the development of Borland IDEs (Delphi, JBuilder, etc) and InterBase database.
We‘re very happy to see you’re intensively testing version 6.6.
To make testing and bug reporting easier we decided to change a few things.
[ED: There are good guides for using Zeos components with Firebird+Delphi and Lazarus too]