On Saturday 19 April 2003 10:21, Lester Caine wrote:

Hi,

> > I have spent the last 18 months working hard, sometimes putting my job on
> > the line, to get a product of ours that uses Firebird into a few of the
> > UK's biggest organisations, including National and Local Government.
>
> The problem I am sure you have found is that they have no
> money for 'new' technology, or they have already given it to
> Microsoft

Not really. The main problem I have found is...

"Oracle and DB2 are our officially supported database servers, we have site
licences for both, and DBA's/Admins for both"

"..but Firebird is free and requires no admin"

"...but its not on our official supported list"

"..how do I get it on the support list?"

"..it needs to be Oracle or DB2"

..and so on...

Phil

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