IBPhoenix reports that Crystal Windows and Doors Ltd a large UK home improvement company. Firebird runs their bespoke CRM database and also their computerised production systems communicating with machinery on the factory floor.
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The AJAX-based product features a visual designer and cross-compiling capabilities for programming in C#, Java, Visual Basic and Object Pascal. An embeddable Firebird database and Apache Web server also are included for application deployments. With WebOS AppsBuilder, Morfik saves developers from having to learn new languages for Web development such as PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) or Python.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Artur Anjos pointed that Banco do Brasil (one of the biggest banks in Brazil) is using Firebird to hold information in its enterprise applications, as you can read here (in portuguese). Babelfish translated version is here.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today the sponsors of the Prague Firebird conference were announced.
The list includes the soon to be spun out “Developer Tool Group” at
Borland, a.k.a. DevCo.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...ThumbsPlus (the photo file manager) stores its thumbnails in a database. Until recently, it was limited to using the Microsoft Access JET format, which is limited to 2 gigs.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready, and available at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2-QuickStart.pdf
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Lazarus and FPC developers will be on the Systems 2006 in Munich in October in hall A3 booth 542. They will try to be there on all 5 days. You can find more information about the Systems 2006 here.
[Ed:you can meet the team and talk about the lazarus ide, oopascal , firebird , open source , free beer ;)]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Pentaho Corp continues to hammer out rapid upgrades to key components of its evolving open source business intelligence suite.
Other open source projects that fall under Pentaho’s stewardship include JPivot, Firebird RDBMS and Enhyra Shark.
Full article here.
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Finally, the patch is here. Thanks to Yavor Doganov, who provided me
with access to a PPC machine and was kind enough not to kick me out when
I filled its disks more than once 🙂
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Friend of mine, that is still working on xBase (Clipper), asked me to recommend him a good GUI tool for SQL database. At first I didn’t know what he exactly wanted. In fact he wanted a tool to retrive and manipulate data in FireBird DB. After trying few tools I recommended IB_SQL. It’s realy light weighted and intuitive.
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