Anything happening with Marathon? Is it worth a look??

Just a thought.

Regards
Colin

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Rail [mailto:daniel@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:11 p.m.
To: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Firebird-general] Firebird in the news: InformationWeek --
Popularity Growing For Open-Source Databases

Hi,

At March 15, 2004, 18:46, C Fraser wrote:

> There are third party tools available that do a great job.

Firebird also needs a basic GUI tool. It doesn't need to be as advanced as
the 3rd party tools.

> The one we use is IBExpert. There is the cut down version of IBExpert
> for example, which is free (not sure if it is free just for personal
> use, or free for business use as well).

But, it doesn't support user management, which the GUI tool to be
distributed with FB should support.

> There are quite a few others as well.

This has been talked about for a long time. And, the current consensus is
that it is time for FB to have a basic GUI tool with no advanced
feature(just something like IBConsole will do).

> Just wondering about reinventing the wheel...

It's about having one that would be maintained, by the Firebird project, and
distributed with Firebird.

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



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