Luke,

I think that it is more likely that this marks the period when borland was not charging for interbase. I don't think you can infer any firebird impact.

hth

ed
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On 10/18/2002 at 10:14 AM Luke Tigaris wrote:

>I was perusing some of the past SEC filings for Borland and thought people
>might be interested in how much money Borland is still making with
>Interbase
>and the impact of Firebird.
>
>2001
> Total Revenue: $187.0 million
> JBuilder: $64.4 million
> Delphi, C++, and Kylix: $48.7 million
> AppServer (MIDAS), VisiBroker, and AppCenter: $36.1 million
> Interbase: $7.9 million
>2000
> Total Revenue: $163.7 million
> JBuilder: $43.6 million
> Delphi, C++, and Kylix: $46.5 million
> AppServer (MIDAS), VisiBroker, and AppCenter: $39.4 million
> Interbase: $11.3 million
>
> * Source Borland Annual Report (10-K) dated March 29, 2002
>
>I think it's interesting to note the 30% drop in revenue off Interbase from
>2000 to 2001. It sounds like Firebird is having a measurable impact on
>Interbase revenue. Also notable is that the followup SEC filings for 2002
>have stopped breaking out the Interbase revenue separately, but now rather
>group it with the AppServer, VisiBroker, and AppCenter revenue. I assume
>this was done to hide the fact that release of Firebird 1.0 had further
>negative impact on Interbase revenue.
>
>As a side note, it is surprising that Delphi revenue was flat and JBuilder
>revenue was up 48%.
>
>Overall, I am gratified with these results. It shows that Borland is doing
>great and Delphi will be around for a long time to come. I am also
>encouraged that Interbase is becoming a marginal business for them, and
>perhaps they will give up the ghost on Interbase and return it to the
>Firebird community, ending this horrible fork they have caused and allow us
>to present one face to the development community.
>
>
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