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Firebird Worldwide Conference - changes

I have had to adjust the USD cost upwards I'm afraid, because of
the continuing slippage of the $ against the euro. So Conference
prices are:

Early Bird: €399.00 (Euros), $479.00 (USD), £279.00 (UKP) until 30th Sept 2005

Normal: €500.00 (Euros), $600.00 (USD), £335.00 (UKP) after 30th Sept 2005.


Regards
Paul Beach
Main Tel (UK):+44 (0) 1844 354357
Mobile: (UK): +44 (0) 7837 898072

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Does Oracle have a demographics problem?

Article does mention several open source databases (firebird included) vs Oracle

Does Oracle have a demographics problem? by ZDNet's Paul Murphy -- Oracle likes to hire people in their late twenties or early thirties who combine attitude with some sales skills, but do you know anyone in that age bracket who doesn't work for Oracle and nevertheless favors the company's database products? I don't.

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Two new areas have been created within FBTalk

they are:

Show Room - An area for members to showcase their products or websites that rely on (or use) a Firebird database.

ISP Forum - Private area for ISP's who support Firebird and wish to discuss best practices. Email admin @ fbtalk.net with user name and home page for inclusion in this private group. Only ISP's will be allowed access.

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JayBird 2.0.0 Beta released

On behalf of the JayBird team I am pleased to anounce the release of JayBird 2.0.0 Beta. Distributions for JDK 1.3.x, 1.4.x and 5.0.x can be downloaded from the SourceForge.net release area.Continued

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ibWebAdmin 0.99.3 released

The changes in this release are as follows:
This release fixes all bugs reported over the last months. The main
issue has been that role privileges were not respected when a role
was used for login. 

Release focus:
7 - Major bugfixes 

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ibwebadmin/
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Firebird for the Database Expert: Episode 2 [Attack of the clones]- Page Types

is an colored episode - enjoy

"A Firebird database is a sequence of fixed length pages normally all contained in a single file.
Different pages have different functions - in this case the yellow page is the database header, followed by a PIP" ....

http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_expert2
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"prices" for the firebird conference

I have posted the "prices" of the conference and how to register on

http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=fb_conf_attend

the "prices" are:

The conference will cost

Early Bird: 399.00 Euros, $399.00, £279.00 until 30th Sept 2005
Normal: 500.00 Euros, $500.00, £335.00 after 30th Sept 2005.

Pricing includes attendance at the conference, lunch (Monday and Tuesday) plus morning and afternoon coffee etc. It does not include
the cost of your Hotel Room, but we will make a reservation for you at the Hotel Olanksa for the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night if
you request it. This reservation will be made at a special conference preferential rate of about 40.00 Euros per night.

They are not yet cast in stone, so feel free to comment.

Regards
Paul Beach
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Firebird Send Email Solution - Request for Testers

I have developed a solution for sending mail directly from a FB Database, primarily this solution is aimed at ISP's but it will work for any computer connected to the internet (with email access).

The solution has been written using PHP so is available on any platform supported by Firebird 1.5 and PHP. It will be available under the IDPL open source license. I am only able to test using SuperServer on Windows XP/2003 with PHP 4.3.9 and 5.0.4, but would appreciate if any one uses other platform/OS's who have a few mins to spare to help test, I would also appreciate a code review from a PHP expert as this is my first app written in PHP.

The solution is very simple and there are script's to add and remove all objects to/from a database. If you can help test please send an email to me (simon.carter @ tectsoft.com) and I will give you a link for a download. It is currently beta but initial tests have been positive :-)

Rgds

Si Carter

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FIBS 1.1.0 Beta-3 is ready for testing

This release seems to be stable as production releases. Having below given new features make FIBS the best backup tool to be distrubuted with database applications.
Please download and try it. Any bug report will be greatly appreciated.

Here are new features/improvements respect to version 1.0.5.
New Features
- Remote backup feature added.
- "Auto Run" feature added.
- "Silence Start" feature added.
- "Smooth Shutdown" feature added.
- "Auto Task Activation" feature added.
- Revised so as to appear on only primary monitor in Multi-Monitored system.
Improvements
- Tray Icon's "Show FIBS" routine improved.
- Tray Icon's "Exit" routine improved.
- Some code cleaning and improvements.

Regards,

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How to setup the Compiere opensource ERP with fyracle (oracle mode firebird)

And that in 5minutes (compare that with oracle)
Video is included

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Firebird for the Database Expert: Episode 1 [ed: phantom menace]- Indexes by Ann Harrison.

Firebird differs in significant ways from other relational database management systems. Understanding the differences will allow you to create better performing Firebird applications.

Audience: Experienced database application developers
http://xrl.us/gefh (Link to ibphoenix.com)

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How do I install Firebird 1.52 on Ubuntu? mini-guide

How do I install Firebird 1.52 on Ubuntu?
Classic or Super?

I found this about Firebird on
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-21618.html

Firebird 1.5.1 can be installed by following these steps:

1. Enable universe repository (see http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories )

2. $ apt-get install firebird2-classic-server (or firebird2-super-server,
according to your needs, see Firebird web)
3. $ apt-get install firebird2-utils-classic

Then you can use the isql-fb app to create/connect to a database and execute
SQL queries.

If you need php4 support, execute
4. $ apt-get install php4-interbase

See www.firebirdsql.org for tutorials and documentation.

alternative to debian way firebird 1.5.2 can be installed from tar.gz

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/...1-0.i686.tar.gz
extract it, run installer

ps:
found another Debian guide http://jclement.ca/docs/firebird_de...irebird-debian/
also firebird 1.5.2 will be packaged as deb

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipe...rch/000391.html

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Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider 1.7a Released

The Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider 1.7a is available for download.

* Download information can be found here:

http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider

* Release notes can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=332260




--
Best regards

Carlos Guzmán Álvarez
Vigo-Spain
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firebird included in debian sarge (3.1)

Great news for firebird to be in latest debian release

http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/firebird2-classic-server

so if counting linux distro's where firebird is included
we have
1.mandriva
2.debian
3.ubuntu
4.gentoo
5.freebsd

to do: push firebird to other distro's from distrowatch.com
and i will ask so firebird to be included in the list of open source
packages (watch the table)

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian


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Knoda Now Supports Firebird and Paradox

Knoda is a database frontend for KDE. With its latest release, Knoda introduces support for Firebird and Paradox databases, now supporting all open source SQL servers. Besides managing tables and queries, Knoda also lets you create forms and reports, scriptable via Python.

Supported database formats are:

• DBase,
• Firebird,
• MS Access,
• MySQL,
• ODBC,
• Paradox,
• Postgres,
• SQLite

Source for news dot.kde.org
by yahoo news

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libgda/libgnomedb 1.3.2 released with Firebird support

Rodrigo Moya from gnome-db.org wrote:

libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing
database-oriented applications, and currently allow access to PostgreSQL,
MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM DB2, mSQL and MS
SQL server, as well as MS Access and xBase files and ODBC data sources.

libgda/libgnomedb are the base of the database support in the GNOME
Office application suite, providing database access for many features in
both Gnumeric and Abiword.

Tarballs are available at
http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgda/1.3/
http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnomedb/1.3/

To install this new version, you'll need:
* libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
* libgnomedb: libgda and dependencies, libgnome/ui, libglade,
libbonoboui and, optionally, gtksourceview

You can find more information at the projects' homepage
(http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose anything
you want in the GNOME-DB mailing list, which is available at
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list.

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Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider 1.7 Released

The Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider 1.7 is available for download.

* Download information can be found here:

http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider

* Release notes can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=332260



Note: I hope to release .NET 1.0 setup as soon as possible.




--
Best regards

Carlos Guzmán Álvarez

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Firebird is Top 4 on SourceForge stats!

We are now on Top 4 on SourceForge stats.
This will bring us more visibility for a week or two.
Watch left box on Top Downloads http://sourceforge.net/



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FIBS 1.0.5 Immediate Release is ready

5th maintenance release of FIBS 1.0 is ready to download. I have noticed that version 1.0.4 (also 1.1.0 Beta-1) can create backup file for compressed task as expected even if current task name includes space chars, but cannot create uncompressed backups if current task name includes spaces.
Tray Icon's "Show FIBS" routine also improved again with this release.

Source fbtalk forum

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FlameRobin V0.2.5 Alpha is available for download

FlameRobin V0.2.5 Alpha is available for download. For more details, read the release notes. FlameRobin is an open source, lightweight and cross-platform GUI administration and management tool for Firebird.

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Firebird in Mandriva LE 2005

Firebird official rpm in Madriva LE 2005 distribution can be downloaded from
contrib section

Source for news firebird-fr.eu

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Firebird Conference: Call For Papers

The Third Firebird Worldwide Conference will take place at the 
Hotel Olsanka in Prague, Czech Republic.

The opening session will be on Sunday evening, 13th November 2005.  
Sessions will run through to the evening of Tuesday 15th November 2005 
(closing session)

Call for Speaker Papers

Are you, or is anyone you know, interested in being a speaker at the 
conference?

Ideally, each speaker should offer to do at least two sessions, although 
it isn't an absolute requirement.  We would accept a single session if the 
topic is considered interesting enough. 

A session will last for 50 minutes plus 10 minutes for turnaround amd questions. 
If your talk takes more than a single session, then it should span multiple sessions. 
If your session is especially popular you may be asked to repeat it.

The opening session on Sunday evening will take place in a large lecture hall.  
Four smaller rooms are available all day for for Monday and Tuesday and a 
lecture hall is available for afternoon sessions that are likely to have larger 
audiences. The closing session will be in the lecture hall on Tuesday evening.

It is expected that conference tracks will cover the following issues

Migrating to Firebird from other databases, why you chose Firebird and 
how you are using it, installation and configuration.

Understanding, developing with and using Firebird
Firebird engine development, Firebird internals (including Vulcan), 
QA, Documentation, Firebird Project

Connectivity and application development with Firebird (e.g. Delphi, 
Java, C++, .NET, ODBC, ADO, BDE, JDBC, IBO, PHP)

Firebird third party tools and applications

Local language topics (e.g. German, French, Czech etc)

Each topic description should indicate the possible track, a title and at 
least 200 words outlining the main points of your talk. Once we have received 
the outline we will let you know whether you have been accepted as a speaker. 

Prospective speakers, please send your outlines to pbeach@ibphoenix.com, by 
August 31st 2005.

Compensation

Speakers who are resident in Europe will be reimbursed 800.00 Euros.  Those from 
other countries will be reimbursed $1400.00 USD.  Hotel accommodation will be 
provided for the three conference nights, from the Sunday night until checkout 
on the Wednesday morning. 


Publication of Papers

Each selected speaker will be expected to turn in a technical paper in electronic 
(HTML - Hypertext markup language) form for each abstract topic originally approved. 
All illustrations and graphics pertaining to each paper must also be submitted.  
The papers should contain enough detail to enable a reader to fully understand the 
topic without benefit of a physical presentation. Speakers may also submit samples 
of code and/or presentation slides. 

All accepted papers will be published electronically on a conference CD for the 
attendees after the conference.  We may choose to sell the conference proceedings 
CD outside of the conference, or publish items separately. By submitting materials 
to the Firebird conference, you grant the Firebird Foundation permission to use, 
reproduce, audio/video record amd distribute your materials.

Paul Beach
Main Tel (UK):+44 (0) 1844 354357
Mobile: (UK): +44 (0) 7837 898072

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