I'm willing to throw some money at that - can we have a contributions
register on the IBPheonix site?
All I would want is an official receipt for tax purposes
Alan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ann Harrison [mailto:harrison@...]
>Sent: Thursday, 24 August 2000 8:23
>To: IBDI@egroups.com; IBDI@egroups.com
>Subject: [IBDI] ODBC driver
>
>
>Here's the whole gory story. InterBase(r) had shipped
>an ODBC driver they got from Merant (previously Intersolv,
>though it was the Visigenics driver). It cost $100K per
>year, was not portable, and would have cost even more to
>upgrade to the new V6 features.
>
>We discussed having EasySoft build an ODBC that they would
>offer open source. Their schedule didn't quite match ours.
>For somewhat less, my husband, Jim Starkey, offered to build
>one, from scratch, to our requirements. Graft and nepotism
>aside, Jim's one hell of a coder and even better at design.
>His design also gave us a C++ interface and, with a little
>additional work, a JDBC.
>
>By mid June, he had the driver in beta test and things were
>going reasonably well. When, at the end of July, Inprise
>announced that negotiations had ended, we (formerly ISC)
>had no way to pay Jim. Remember, he's a consultant and not
>part of the IBPhoenix conspiracy, except by marriage. He's
>got his own business.
>
>He was pretty annoyed at having taken a month and a half
>out of his project for nothing. He was substantially more
>annoyed at the way Inprise handled the whole situation.
>The thought that Inprise could leave the former ISC stranded
>and broke after over six months of negotiations and at the
>same time pick up his ODBC driver for free was totally
>unacceptable.
>
>All three interfaces of his driver would be of great value
>to the InterBase(r) community and I hope that they will
>be available in some form soon. What's needed is a way
>for IBPhoenix to live up to the contract we made with him
>in May, pay him his $25K, and be in a position to support
>and maintain the driver.
>
>And that's where it sits.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ann
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