FirebirdNews writes: I have been a big fan of the Firebird database for a while now. It is a fast, reliable and maintenance free database which suits my needs. While it is very good at a couple of things, one of the features that I like is the fact that the entire database is stored in one file. In principle this is not important, but it is pretty clean and can be very useful.
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FirebirdNews writes: SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard 7.8, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management.

New version features:

• ASP.NET Generator Wizard is implemented.
• New Shell Application with Ribbon toolbars (like Office 2007) and more.
• Unicode/UTF-8 support.
• PHP Generator: now it is possible to create a lookup menu for a column using a custom value list (not only foreign keys).
• Data Pump: now optimized for Microsoft.Jet engine.
• Data Import: the speed of loading of Excel files was significantly increased.
• All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.

There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc)

IBPhoenix writes: Firebird V2.01 SuperServer and Classic for MacOS PowerPC are available for download. Thanks to Paul Beach and Alex Peshkov.

After seeing this thread I downloaded the source tarbizip file