> On 25-May-2004 00:12:37, marius popa wrote:
> What next? oracle open sourc-ed :)
> I even can't imagine that ...

Well if anything it attests to the power of the Open Source community. If
these 'big' corporations feel some benefit to them in granting a license to
their products to the open source community, either its that they've just
given up against Oracle & MS SQL Server, or that they feel that this will
better their product in the long run.

I've always wondered what the motivation was with Inprise granting an Open
Source license of Interbase. Has their been any formal publishing of sales
results following this for their software? Clearly we all benefit with
Firebird, but I'm wondering if a lot of corporations or government
departments around the world did, in fact, get introduced to the technology
through Firebird which made them invest in Interbase.

Anyone with any ideas on this?

Regards,
Myles

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Myles Wakeham
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