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Firebird Relational Database 1.5 Final Out

firebirdy writes "The Firebird Project is pleased to announce that the v1.5 release of the Firebird database engine is now available for immediate download. The v1.5 release represents a major upgrade to the engine, which has been developed by an independent team of voluntary developers from the InterBase(tm) source code that was released by Borland under the InterBase Public License v.1.0 on 25 July 2000. Development on the Firebird 2 codebase began early in Firebird 1 development, with the porting of the Firebird 1 C code to C++ and the first major code-cleaning. Firebird 1.5 is the first release of the Firebird 2 codebase. Install packages are currently only available for Windows and Linux but other platforms should follow shortly." This product is not to be confused with newly renamed Firefox web browser, which was also called Firebird for some time.

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  1. Re:How do I use this thing? by zippity8 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    AFAIK, Firebird still retains the same interface as Interbase.

    This means that PHP4.0 has full support for it -- but I'm not sure how this applies with the new version of firebird.

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ibase.php
    http ://www.ibphoenix.com/a6181.htm