The Interbase Developer Initiative is a merging of groups determined to ensure that the development of Interbase under open source will proceed in the best conditions possible to protect its high technical quality and guarantee its growth.
Database for the New Millennium
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The InterBase Developer's Handbook FIRST draft outline is up for your scrutiny, recommendations and inspirations.
Does "embedded" convey the right impression to the world about InterBase? Join a discussion list to say what you think about the marketing image.
Join a discussion list on InterBase architecture. Interbase Corp tech team is participating.
The current v. 6.0 beta release is 'classic' architecture - R & D are working to have superserver ready for the next beta. IBConsole uses IBX, which uses the Services API which does not support classic. The command line tools do work and an alternative is available if you want to use a console-style gui. More...
The NDA on all existing IB 6 Beta testers has been officially lifted.
InterBase will use CVS for code control.
Marion (see list in high-level source description) will be released as an open source project.
InterBase 6.0 for Linux Beta released with Windows Client Beta. Click here to download.
Borland has just opened up the 15 or so newsgroups for IB6 that so far were private for beta testers only. They are now public.
Newsgroup names: interbase.public.kinobi.*
Marco Cantù joins the IBDH Editorial team and the InterBase tech team contributes its own book outline.
InterBase proves its mettle in a new PCWeek benchmark with PostgreSQL
Visit the IB official site and catch up with the new features - Research Center, late-breaking news on rapid changes, feedback opportunities, community contacts
Join the Interbase Developer Initiative - write to Jason Wharton to identify yourself and to say how you want to get involved.
Please participate in the IBDI Survey. It gives you an opportunity to provide a lot of useful information for us as community leaders to know your thoughts and opinions.
Note that you no longer need to download the TCP/IP client - this survey is now Internet-based. Our thanks to Jeff Wang of Infopoll Inc.
