> From: Olivier Mascia

Hi,

> The pages on www.borland.com/interbase have very recently changed.
> What do you all think of what is presented there and the way it
> is formulated ?

Its taken them a while to 'revamp' old and out of date material. The most
important info (FAQ's, Knowledge base etc.) has disappeared into the bowels
of the 'community site' never to be seen again. Luckily we have IBPhoenix
and Mers for 'technical' info, and IBDI and IBPhoenix for 'news', so unless
something 'new' starts to appear on the Borland site, I can't see any point
in visiting it (any Borland news will appear on IBDI/IBPhoenix).

The Borland community site was a great idea and worked well to start with,
but has got to big/difficult to find anything of relevance. Whilst I visit
the 'main page' regularly to see what's up, I rarely use it for finding
technical info. If they are not careful, it will become as inconvenient to
use as the online MSDN, which takes a good hour to find anything you want.
If I didn't get 40 MSDN CDs a quarter through the post I would not use it at
all.

FAQ's/Knowledge bases have always been difficult to manage once they start
to have plenty of information, and I much prefer the stuff on CD. Maybe
IBDI, IBPhoenix, Mers and even Borland could get together and produce a
monthly CD of all this stuff and newsgroup postings as well, with a simple
'interface' (anyone know of a good read-only DB that will work off a CD
<g>). If the CD was cheap enough for even the 'open source' developer (say
$10 - $20 per month or $150 per year), I am sure there will be enough
'purchasers' to cover the cost.

Sorry for going off topic, but I am always annoyed that I get Gigabytes of
M$ 'technical info' through the post a month for 'tools' that are crap and I
don't use, but the 'tools' that are good, and I do use, I get nothing,
except a long search on a web site.

Cheers

Phil