Myles Wakeham wrote:

> 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.

The alternative was that Interbase was just killed off !!!!
The pressure from users who had businesses built on it helped to keep it
alive.

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