Today IBPhoenix introduced the IBPhoenix Firebird Developer Pack - a set of tools for developing Firebird applications with Visual Studio, Delphi/C++ Builder and other tools. This pack was created in collaboration with Upscene, IBSurgeon, SQLLY and Fast Report.

It’s good to see leading companies uniting to create a universal solution for Firebird developers. Firebird (and InterBase too) have suffered from the lack of a comprehensive solution for an all-in-one solution for development, management and maintenance, now it exists.

It seems important for us that Visual Studio support is specially highlighted in IBPhoenix Firebird Developer Pack (it’s a bit long name, let’s call it IFDP): if a developer is using the free Microsoft Visual Studio Express for development, it’s obvious choice to use free Firebird for deployment.

While focusing IFDP at development, IBPhoenix also offers solutions for maintenance: replication and backup/recovery automation, optimization and recovery tools.

The next logical step from IBPhoenix can be similar solution for InterBase developers who suffer from similar problems with the distribution of InterBase too.

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