Mr Slootman,

Thank you for explicating Inprise's intentions regarding InterBase. Thank
you also for inviting the public to email you on
interbase@.... Would you please inform us how a member of the
public may post to this list, as my message was rejected.

I have some questions arising from your announcement, to which answers
would be appreciated.

<< Periodically, Inprise/Borland will test and certify versions of
InterBase for commercial release. The first of these will be a derivative
of the InterBase 6.0.1 code which has been posted to Source Forge. We are
in the process of certifying the final components of this release and
will then make it available to our customers and partners via our regular
distribution channels. Inprise/Borland will resume its marketing and sales
efforts around certified releases of InterBase and will meet customer
commitments and offer support and services
http://www.inprise.com/devsupport/interbase/ in conjunction with these
releases.>>

Please could you expand on this for me:

1. Would you please describe the "customers and partners" who will have
access to certified releases.
2. Please explain "our regular distribution channels" and indicate whether
certified builds will be available for public download.

<< We are also preparing documentation, build procedures and other
documents to be used as reference materials for the InterBase community. It
is from these documents that we hope the community will guide itself when
taking an active role in this open source development project. >>

Will the documentation be available to the public?

<< Due to the nature of the open source license, other entities are
empowered to certify their own versions of InterBase. In support of this,
Inprise/Borland is evaluating how to license a meaningful assortment of QA
test suites to members of the community.>>

Would you please expand on plans to enable the use of the test batteries
for certifiying non-commercial kits?

Thank you.

Helen Borrie
All for Open and Open for All
InterBase Developer Initiative · http://www.interbase2000.org
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