A RDBMS, even if it is good, is nothing if there is no third-party
software integrated with it. Thanks to the Firebird Project, Firebird
has good .NET and Java drivers. Thanks to the efforts of some people,
Firebird is today incorporated into the major Linux distributions.

But often, when you want to use free software, such as the full-text SQL
search engine Sphinxsearch, there is no Firebird driver for it, or the
driver is not as good as it should be (the Ruby driver for example).

This meeting at the Firebird Conference is to share experiences, I will
try to show the current coverage - Linux distributions, tools like
Mondrian, etc.

Perhaps we need to work on a "light" Firebird API that is easy to
understand and manage, as an aid to integration of Firebird with other
tools.

I invite you to come, share your experience and let's explore together
how we can improve the situation.

But first, to prepare this session, I'm looking for success and non
success stories about Firebird and other open-source software.
So please, contact me outside the list if you have any experience, good
or bad related to this topic.

Thanks

--
Philippe Makowski
http://www.ibphoenix.com
Supporting users of Firebird