Another article in Japanise where Firebird History is recolected also Firebird Future and Roadmap from 2008 is inspected
Also in first part Firebird 2. 1.1 is compiled and installed from source on CentOS
I (Dan Wilson) put together the procedure I used in order to get native and PDO firebird support working with PHP and CentOS 5. I was unsuccessful using the FAQ at http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq191/, and couldn’t find any other tricks on the web that worked. So, I compiled from a fedora source RPM as follows
The Evolution Payroll service-bureau system from iSystems, LLC employs a three-tiered architecture, with the backend being one or more Linux servers running the Firebird SQL database. Evolution is able to split the load across multiple DB servers on a per-client basis. As Service Bureaus grow, it’s common to add new DB servers to the system, and this Evo Tip covers the steps required to take a fresh Fedora Core system and prepare it for Evolution.
