Release Firebird Database Management System 2.5

The launch date of the new version of the famous database management system Firebird was officially set on October 4, 2010.

Everyone who is interested in this important event can join the online seminar with Mr. Philippe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation and Dmitry Yemanov, the leader of the system development team. The workshop will be held at 13:00 GMT on October 4, 2010. The link to register and attend a free seminar: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/fbcon2010/join?id=46D79S&role=attend. Any questions and questions related to launch@mindthebird.com.

Firebird is a relational database management system with more than 20 years of history, originating from the first GDS version in 1984. With unique, unique features at the time, like blob (storage capacity) Very large data in 1 record) The characters Jim Starkey , Ann Harrison and Don Depalma have made history: Interbase became a database management system named in the programming world.

Interbase was then owned by Borland in 1991, and it was announced by the company to open source code in 2000. At that time, Interbase's code was received by the programming community and developed into one. Independent product, completely free, called Firebird.

Version 2.5 was released on October 4, 2010, the 5th version since Firebird became a private open source project. This version, inherits and develops over 20 years of a special database management system, with features that are extremely suitable for databases up to hundreds of gigabytes. The most interesting thing about Firebird is that there is almost no need for a database administrator, although the system is used for hundreds of concurrent connections.

For professional programmers, writing really big products, running in harsh environments such as production management, low-cost management, with multi-point, multi-level models, Firebird is a logical platform. thought. The system has all the features of relational database management systems such as: full of stored procedures and triggers, real ACIDs; Fast and simple data backup and restore.

For end users, the use of Firebird application systems will help to exploit large multi-core server systems, and save costs to tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars for database systems with goods. hundred concurrent users. This online seminar will help programmers, system developers and large enterprises have a clearer view of the scale, application and method of exploiting a really large and stable database system. in enterprise environment.

More information about Firebird and its upcoming launch is available at: http://www.firebirdsql.org/, http://www.mindthebird.com/.