I agree with Bill.

To add to the list of questions: What are Inprise's plans to manage the
product? Without Ann or Paul at the helm, what do they plan to do? How
does *Inprise* plan to develop the source code? How does *Inprise* plan
to support the community?

AND--at BorCon, Dale was openly *committed* to the deal with Ann and
Paul. Why the sudden non-commit? Why suddenly downplay the InterBase
Software Corp's involvement in this?

Although it's terribly exciting to finally have an open source database,
it's also very disturbing to think that it seems *Inprise* has no plan
for InterBase except to shove it out the door.

I'd like to see Ann, Paul and Matt at the helm of a company that can
build genuine excitement for an open-source database. I'd like to see
them executing a well thought out plan for moving InterBase forward, and
for pushing a free database into the community.

Bill Lancaster wrote:

>
> After listening to the conference call, it's my opinion that Inprise does
> not intend to spin-off InterBase. Ann, Paul, or Matt would be better to
> clarify this if they know. However, the words and actions today reflect an
> Inprise product line. In the cc, Dale said he committed to open sourcing
> InterBase and he did it. He also said they "discussed" the possibility of
> spinning off a company but that may not come to fruition. I do not
> remember the exact wording.
>
> Bill Lancaster
>
> At 06:13 PM 7/25/00 +0400, you wrote:
> >Ann,
> >
> >I've found nothing about InterBase Software Corporation in Dale's press
> >release? What does it mean?
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Dmitry
> >
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