Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.

Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000.
Join the Firebird Foundation The software is completely free of any registration, licensing or deployment fees. It may be deployed freely for use with any third-party s

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Preparing to release Firebird Care Pack Community Edition - free version of Firebird pack, drivers and docs set plus IBSurgeon tools to protect database. IBSurgeon — about 1 year ago

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    Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 3 Kits Now Available

    The Firebird team is pleased to announce that kits for field-testing the third release candidate for Firebird 2.5 are now available. The 32-bit and 64-bit kits are available for Linux, along with 32-bit kits for Windows and 64-bit for the MacOSX/Darwin Intel platform. The missing kits for 64-bit Windows and 32-bit MacOSX are still in QA [...]

    FDD donations to Firebird Foundation

    The Brazilian Firebird Developers Day was able to collect R$ 4.500 as donations to Firebird Foundation. Money was already transfered. I wish to thanks all the donors! This is the biggest value ever collected at FDD.

    Free tool for MindTheBird participants!

    Hello All, Good news for all MindTheBird participants – Nucleon Software http://www.nucleonsoftware.com offers free license of there “Database Master” software for all participants of MindTheBird. If you would like to get such ... [More] license, please send to free at mindthebird.com email with the following information: “FirstName”, “LastName”, E-Mail, optionally Company name, and get free license of [...] [Less]

    Ultimate EFv4 CTP4 Code First full mapping example using Firebird

    Jiří {x2} Činčura created an example with Entity Framework 4 CTP4 Let’s model some kind of simple library and try to use there couple of Entity Framework’s features. And to make things worse, try to do it with ADO.NET provider for Firebird.Good news is I succeeded. My database structure was my first and non-touchable object [...]

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