IBSurgeon was founded in 2002, to provide Firebird and InterBase developers and administrators with tools and services to ensure databases performance and availability. In Russia, IBSurgeon is known as iBase.ru, famous for its Russian InterBase and Firebird portal www.ibase.ru. IBSurgeon is a Platinum sponsor of Firebird Foundation and, as a member of Technical Task Group, has a strong relationship with Firebird Project, with direct representatives in Firebird-Admins and in Firebird Foundation Committee. http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/ibsurgeon/ Today, IBSurgeon serves more than 2000 companies worldwide with emergency, optimization, and maintenance tools and various services.