Hi everyone,

I am Jacco Kulman, senior programmer of Property Managements Systems for the
Hospitality Industry. Our company relies heavily on Interbase technology.
Only recently we have "ported" the database and the application to function
under MSSQL but the performance is very VERY slow...

The news that Inprise/Borland stops research and developement of Interbase
was a great shock to us. We are a VAR of Inprise Corp and invested a lot of
money in Interbase. I am not very confident that "Open Sourcing" Interbase
will be very successfull, because of all the different perspectives and
goals there can be in improving/altering Interbase.

When we received the news we immediately started looked for another database
system, and we are currently evaluating SyBase. Unless the Open Sourcing of
Interbase proves to be a success we can't sell our customers a "dead" DBMS.

Nevertheless I am willing to join the effort to try and keep Interbase
alive. I am a pretty good programmer (Delphi) and have got 24*7 - 100 hours
to invest. The things I could help best with is probably testing and
writing/adjusting of the tools that come with IB using Delphi. (I guess IB
is written in C++ which I can read/interpret but producing code is something
else).

Regards Jacco

P.S: What will all this mean for the BDE and IB SQL Links ??