Thanks Paul for this information.

Indeed, it is a big win to all of us.
I hope Mr Fuller will make, today, a gentleman move.

Olivier Mascia,

--- In IBDI@egroups.com, "Paul Beach" <pabeach@w...> wrote:
> <<What's this Cobalt Networks issue ?
> Pardon my ignorance, but I do not know them.
> And never read about them since the 'black' december.>>
>
> Cobalt are a relatively new company who manufacture "appliances" -
the Qube
> and the RaQ, typically initially for ISPs, but are expanding their
> portfolio.
> The IPO'd last year, and are curently being very sucessful in
growing their
> business - i.e. they are a name to watch in the Linux appliance
market.
>
> I have spent 18 months cultivating a close business and R&D
relationship.
> The upside of this relationship is simply this, they have agreed to
ship
> InterBase pre-installed on all future versions of the systems that
they
> release. We have a deadline to meet for the next major release of
one their
> products, and I for one want InterBase on their system. But until
the deal
> with Inprise closes, I can't authorise this - only Inprise can. So
I am in
> the process of asking Inprise to give Coablt a release for the
binary
> versions of InterBase 6.0, so they can release their new product
with
> InterBase pre-installed as the database of choice.
>
> Its a big win for us.
>
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