Firebird Conference 2011 is over. It was very intensive, bright and interesting. I would like to thank conference organizers, Sita Software, and personally Vincenzo Sita and Jas Madhur, for the great event and their hospitality. Also many thanks goes to sponsors, IBSurgeon, vendor of recovery and optimization tools, and IBPhoenix, Firebird support company, for their help in organizing conference. More details, photos and impressions will be available in the next issue of Firebird Newsletter.
The first day of Firebird Conference 2011 is started. Real-time photos and tweets are available at FirebirdSQL Facebook page and through Twitter tag #fbcon11.
Yesterday the first issue of Firebird SQL Project newsletter was delivered to all subscribers. This issue includes the letter from the President of Firebird Foundation Philippe Makowski, short story about Firebird Developers Day in Brazil and digest of recent community news. You can read this issue online. We strongly encourage you to subscribe to Firebird SQL project newsletter in order to receive new issues in time.
Announcements of talks at Firebird Conference 2011 — talks from Dmitry Yemanov and Alex Peshkov: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-conference-2011-topics. There will be more announcements soon — stay tuned!
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 2.5.1 — a minor release of the award-winning relational database management system. This sub-release introduces several bug fixes and many important improvements — for example, performance improvements during a database restore, the ability to write to global temporary tables in read-only databases, etc.
The Firebird Project invites all Firebird users and developers to participate in the Firebird Conference 2011, which will take place in Luxembourg, November 25-26, 2011.
Read this new case study to know how DRBSystems uses Firebird for more than 1500 of Point of Sale Systems for Carwash Industry, and why they decided to be Platinum Sponsor of Firebird Foundation.
New Firebird case study is published: read why Moscow City Hospital #31 have choosen Firebird instead of Oracle to build medical analytical system.
Firebird 2.5.1 RC1 MacOSX 32-bit builds are available for download.
Today Firebird Project announces availability of Firebird 2.5.1 Release Candidate 1 64-bit builds for MacOSX and update of Firebird 2.5.0 64-bit release builds. Download them from Firebird 2.5.1 RC1 page and Firebird 2.5.0 release page.