Hi Brendan,

At April 18, 2003, 00:25, brendaneich wrote:

> Why didn't you guys do something different from s/Phoenix/Firebird/
> when you renamed, then? There were other uses of Firebird for
> software and network things at that time. Were you not thinking
> outside the box?

Please read the information on the following web site:
http://www.inta.org/basics/ip/clearance.shtml

Here's a scenario that can happen:

I go see a company in regards to a contract to develop an application
that uses Firebird the RDBMS for it's database server. And, just
before I get to meet the CEO he just gave the approval to his IT
department to install Firebird the browser on the company's computers.
Now, if the CEO is not computer literate and just uses the
computer(with very basic knowledge), it can be hard to explain the
difference between the two to that CEO, and even explain that they are
not related in anyway. And, if the sales process takes a few days or
weeks, I can see the subject come up more than once.

Thank you for your time.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)