Thanks for that Helen - I seem destined to keep crossing paths with you on
this world-wide-cyber-web-net thingy :-)

Good to hear that the production build is close - we've downloaded the
Windows kit from sourceforge and ran our software against it, initial
impressions are highly favourable, the backwards compatibility is obviously
very strong. I will be pushing for our QA team to give the system a good
test against Firebird to see where we might need to tweak our own code. It
is nice to see that the server management tools have been put together in a
single app with a usable UI, it is an all too obvious symptom of Borland's
under-marketing of Interbase that we have to "make do" with Server Manager
and ISQL.

Is it the case now that the Open Sourcing exercise has made Borland aware of
what a hot product they actually have? Probably academic, I think they have
opened a Pandora's box that has spawned IBDI, Firebird etc and from reading
this list I think critical mass has been reached and the student is ready to
take over from the master :-)

While I am writing - well done to all the chaps and chappesses that have
driven IBDI ever onwards - the developer community is very appreciative of
your efforts even if it might not feel like it when you are locked in battle
with your computer in a dark corner somewhere :-)

Cheers
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
Sent: 02 May 2001 12:31
To: IBDI@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IBDI] Project Status


At 11:41 AM 02-05-01 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi all,

Hi Gary!

>just when you thought you had me safely back lurking...
>
>We have a product that runs against Interbase 5.5 - my boss has started to
>look into Interbase 6 in the hope that we can move to that instead. I must
>have taken my eye off the ball because it came as a surprise to me that you
>still have to buy user licences if you use the official Interbase 6

product.

Not "still" but "again". Borland recently released a range of "editions" of
IB6 under a slightly more expensive rendition of the traditional per-seat
licensing model that you have come to love so dearly with IB 5.x and older.
There is no "free InterBase" now unless you want to roll your own from the
source code (not "certified", though, whatever that means). In that case,
you will be using "Open Edition" but you won't be allowed to call it
"InterBase". AhemBase?

>Which leads to my question - what is the status of the Firebird project at
>the moment? If we wanted to deploy our software using Firebird rather than
>IB6 (potentially to a large number of sites) then how close are things to a
>production release

About a month or two, all going well with the punish and burn testing. The
current betas are pretty hot and you can look at the known and fixed bugs at
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=1
Do try it out and thrash it yourself, though.

>, is the support operation up and running

Yes. www.ibphoenix.com. - commercial, top support.

Lotsa websites and an internationally-based Marketing Division gestating in
the IBDI list. :)

>I personally would love to see us move down this route, it seems that the
>future of Interbase _is_ Firebird - there certainly seems to be enough
>momentum. I just need to provide answers to commercially-biased questions
>from the "powers that be"...

Get the questions and I bet you will get the answers. Visit the firebird
website (http://firebird.sourceforge.net) for news and stuff.

Cheers,
H.

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