Well since its open source and under the MPL (aka IPL aka IPL-Inprise)
they can still do their support company, and improve upon it and do
exactly what they want to with it...its just that Dale Fuller may not pat
them on the back and call them official...we all still know they are our
own official crew. For instance if both Inprise and Interbase Corp offer
support I would of course be giving Ann and Paul and Markus a call (sorry
if I left out anyone), not Dale.

Randal

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Gregory Deatz wrote:

> 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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