--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@l...>
wrote:

>
> Helen - I am begining to belive the line that NOBODY at
> Mozilla bothered to do a search for problems. They were all
> looking in simple 'legal' terms.

That's called searching for legal problems with the use of the name --
a kind of searching for problems.

>
> A search for 'Firebird Browser' used to produces some
> interesting hits. A lot of crap - yes - but as far as I am
> concerned Google is crap anyway, but we live with it. Now of
> cause it highlights the problem <g>
>
> From a Mozilla supporter site
> http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/faq.shtml
> ----
> Q: Don't Firebird™ Browser and Firebird DB share the same
> target audience?
>
> No. The Firebird™ Browser is intended as a mass market
> browser. It is not a developer centric geek-fest like
> Mozilla. Your average Firebird™ Browser user, whether they
> be novice, intermediate or advanced, will likely not
> regularly use the Firebird DB. Thus, levels of overlap and
> confusion are likely to be statistically insignificant
> ----
>
> Brendan - We may be 'statistically insignificant' but a
> growing number of large established companies that
> traditionally used Interbase are switching. If Mozilla wants
> to get onto those desktops, then we are the encumbants - if
> their support engineers have poroblems, the corporate data
> takes priority.

Ben Goodger's bit of fun at your expense seems to have impaired your
ability to read English. His phrase "likely to be statistically
insignificant" applies grammatically to "levels of overlap and
confusion". He was not calling "you" (as in "We may be ...")
'statistically insignificant" -- unless you are identifying yourself
as a "[level] of overlap and confusion"!

>
> *I* am just approaching the end of a SIX MONTH push to get
> Firebird accepted as a serious alternative to SQLServer for
> a multi-million pound contract. I don't need this sort of
> agro just now! I can just see the meeting next week -
> Firebird - isn't that just a browser? Monzillazine have
> pushed THAT everywhere.

Seriously, do you expect any such noise to come up at that meeting?
If it did, why would there be anything more than a laugh about it?
Your contract is for an alternative to SQLServer, not for a browser.

/be