| Subject | Re: [IB-Architect] Killing Interbase? |
|---|---|
| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2000-08-09T15:16:48Z |
At 10:00 AM 09-08-00 -0500, you wrote:
be killed? They could do that themselves once they owned it, couldn't
they? It would be a STRONG reason NOT to kill it - loss of leverage.
I'll go with "Never put down to conspiracy what can be attributed to
stupidity".
In any case, AFAIK, there was never any suggestion that InterBase as a
whole was to be killed. Inprise was making too much money out of 5.6. It
was IB 6 R & D that got iced.
Helen
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>Thats a LOT of speculation. Could just have easily have been MS, Informix,And, anyway, why would a buyer like ORCL or any of the above require IB to
>IBM or anyone else.
>
>Paul
be killed? They could do that themselves once they owned it, couldn't
they? It would be a STRONG reason NOT to kill it - loss of leverage.
I'll go with "Never put down to conspiracy what can be attributed to
stupidity".
In any case, AFAIK, there was never any suggestion that InterBase as a
whole was to be killed. Inprise was making too much money out of 5.6. It
was IB 6 R & D that got iced.
Helen
>----- Original Message -----http://www.interbase2000.org
>From: Jim Douglas <jdz99@...>
>To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:43 AM
>Subject: [IB-Architect] Killing Interbase?
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> > I have been asking around and have was told that someone made an offer to
> > buy Inprise last December which was voted down by the BOD and it makes me
> > wonder if the potential buyer may have been ORCL. If it was then it makes
> > sense as to why there may have been a plan to kill Interbase, I'm sure
> > Oracle would have loved to.
> >
> > If it was Oracle we will never know because of a non-disclosure agreement
> > and if so, Inprise has there hands tied because they can't say anything.
> >
> > As posted on www.interbase2000.org, I just cannot believe Inprise they had
>a
> > plan to 'sunset' Interbase and ORCL's involvement is one way of making
>sense
> > of it. That combined with the fact that Inprise has embraced
> > open-standards, cross-platform strategy lead me to believe there was no
> > intention 'sunset' Interbase, it was the potential suitors.
> >
> >
> > -Jim
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