Hi all (if wrong list, let me know)


I listened with interest to Ann Harrison's
webinar on the history of IB/FB downloaded
from the ibphoenix site with some interest
and indeed enjoyment (it was nice to be able
to put a voice to the email!).

On listening, I got the idea on the reasons
why IB lost out to Oracle. They were twofold:


1) too strict an adherence to the SQL standards
(look at Oracle's massacre of those!) - not enough
proprietary extensions, leading to (in the minds
of PHB's anyway) a perception that IB lacked
in power


and


2) trying to too resource economical - i.e. while
IB was trying to conserve all sorts of resources,
Oracle was saying "to hell with that, let's just
get the feature in, by the time it's bedded down,
the hardware will have caught up!"


Basically, IB was too good for its own good!


Any thoughts or ideas anyone?


Paul...