New Firebird-Enterprise list
A new list has been created for those wishing to share their
experiences about deploying Firebird databases in big networked enterprises.
See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-enterprise/
Helen
A new list has been created for those wishing to share their
experiences about deploying Firebird databases in big networked enterprises.
See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-enterprise/
Helen
“In the open source world, we are always flattered when changes are attributed to open source,” said MySQL Chief Executive Officer Marten Mickos. “But the enormous price pressure and the desire among customers to get away from licensing fees is self-inflicted and not a result of open source. Open source just happens to be the perfect answer to the cry.” – Read more here.
Finally we have moved to our new server in Canada, thanks to the generosity of Broadview Software. More news shortly about our other new server, running a Firebird back-end and our new tracker system. [Ed: this server is way faster than sf.net watch the Alexa’s Site Stats ]
We are pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 Beta1 package. With this first beta release we are officially starting the beta testing phase. Below are some guidelines regarding the first beta as well as the download locations.
We are glad to inform you that “The InterBase and Firebird Developer Magazine” #4
is available for free download.
Please download it from one of the following locations:
Please take a moment to vote on our currently poll. You can find it at the sidebar of the site. It will help the project to find out what are the priorities of Firebird users.
The article TECH FILES-Business Intelligence II: Software that tells a story in BarnStablePatriot mentions that Firebird is supported by Interactive Reporting 2.4, published by Interactive Reporting.
Miroslav Penchev wrote on firebird-general list :
There is a conference about Open Source, Web development and Databases at
the end of June in Sofia, Bulgaria. You can see
http://wtconferences.com/2006/index.php for more info.
I will make a lecture about Firebird and now I make my presentation and
develop the information to present. Almost all of lecture I will present
Firebird current version, to make it more popular here in Bulgaria. I also
plan to include information about FB 2 at the end of lecture – new things,
performance optimization, etc.
With interbase/firebird we use transactions. you start transactions before you get/post data from the database. With this article i’d like to show how you can easily centralize the code and prevent errors like “Transaction already started, or errors while committing”.
A new stable release of the PEAR::MDB2 abstraction layer and of the Firebird/Interbase driver has been released.
PEAR::MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR::DB and Metabase PHP database abstraction layers.
Download and changelog: