1.3. Acknowledgments

The first full language reference manual for Firebird would not have eventuated without the funding that finally brought it to fruition. We acknowledge these contributions with gratitude and thank you all for stepping up.

Sponsors and Other Donors

Sponsors of the Russian Language Reference Manual
  • Moscow Exchange (Russia)

    Moscow Exchange is the largest exchange holding in Russia and Eastern Europe, founded on December 19, 2011, through the consolidation of the MICEX (founded in 1992) and RTS (founded in 1995) exchange groups. Moscow Exchange ranks among the world’s top 20 exchanges by trading in bonds and by the total capitalization of shares traded, as well as among the 10 largest exchange platforms for trading derivatives.

  • IBSurgeon (ibase.ru) (Russia)

    Technical support and developer of administrator tools for the Firebird DBMS.

Sponsors of the Translation Project
Other Donors

Listed below are the names of companies and individuals whose cash contributions covered the costs for translation into English, editing of the raw, translated text and conversion of the whole into the Firebird Project’s standard DocBook 4 documentation source format.

Integrity Software Design, Inc. (U.S.A.)

dimari GmbH (Germany)

beta Eigenheim GmbH (Germany)

KIMData GmbH (Germany)

Jason Wharton (U.S.A)

Trans-X (Sweden)

Sanchez Balcewich (Uruguay)

Cointec Ingenieros y Consultores, S.L. (Spain)

Aage Johansen (Norway)

Mattic Software (Netherlands)

André Knappstein (Germany)

Paul F. McGuire (U.S.A.)

Marcus Marques da Rocha (Brazil)

Martin Kerkhoff

Thomas Vedel (Denmark)

Bulhan Bulhan (Australia)

Alexandre Benson Smith (Brazil)

Guillermo Nabrink (Brazil)

Pierre Voirin (France)

Heiko Tappe (Germany)

Doug Chamberlin (U.S.A.)

Craig Cox (U.S.A.)

OMNet, Inc. (Switzerland)

Alfred Steller (Germany)

Konrad Butz (Germany)

Thomas Smekal (Canada)

Carlos H. Cantu (Brazil)

XTRALOG SARL (France)

Laszlo Urmenyi (Brazil)

Fernando Pimenta (Brazil)

Rudolf Grauberger (Germany)

Thomas Steinmaurer (Austria)

Rene Lobsiger (Switzerland)

Hian Pin Tjioe

Xavier Codina

Mick Arundell (Australia)

Russell Belding (New Zealand)

Anticlei Scheid (Brazil)

Luca Minuti (Italy)

Mark Rotteveel (Netherlands)

Chris Mathews (U.S.A.)

Hannes Streicher (Germany)

Wolfgang Lemmermeyer (Germany)

Paolo Sciarrini (Italy)

Acosta Belzusarri

Daniel Motos Guerra

Alberto Alfonso Luna

Simeon Bodurov

Cees Meijer

Robert Nixon

Olivier Dehorter (France)

András Omacht (Hungary)

Web Express

Sergio Conzalez

Marc Bleuwart

Gabor Boros

Shaymon Gracia Campos

Cserna Zsombor (Hungary)

David Keith

Uwe Gerold

Daniele Teti (Italy)

Pedro Pablo Busto Criado

Istvan Szabo

Spiridon Pavlovic

J. L. Garcia Naranjo

A. Morales Morales

Helen Cullen (New Zealand)

Francisco Ibarra Ozuna