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-----Original Message-----
From: Pieter Valentijn [mailto:pvalentijn@...]
Sent: 23 July 2004 09:07
To: johan@...
Subject: RE: [Firebird-general] Re: XML / Philip Copeman


Yes i now free pascal andf lazarus :-)
Im verry exited about it and i wil probebly go there to.
I own the commercial licenties for Delphi 6,7 and 8 (highest versions)
and i have worked with
Delphi for more that 5 years (from d3).
I think the Freepascal and lararus have great potetial. All do there in
a early stage right now. Bu tmy nowledge of Delphi wont be lost if i wil
use freepascal and lararus.
Im sure we can port most of the ZEOS to Freepascal since its all bases
on the abstracet class Tdataset and thats included in teh Lararus. So
even do it mite take some time it wil be availeble on Lararus one day.
For now i think its to young to make realy production executebles with
the Freepascal. But that wil change in the years to come. So maby you
should try to get hold of a Delphi version so you can begin to build
Stuff and learn Delphi.

I think when we port To Lararus we wil have the summun of Opensource Fee
compiler and free program. You cant beat that. :)



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Johan van Zyl [mailto:johan@...]
Verzonden: vrijdag 23 juli 2004 19:54
Aan: Philip Copeman
CC: pvalentijn@...
Onderwerp: FW: [Firebird-general] Re: XML / Philip Copeman




-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Soques [mailto:jsoques@...]
Sent: 23 July 2004 07:21
To: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Firebird-general] Re: XML / Philip Copeman


I am a VB programmer and I´m trying to look for an alternative (Open
Source) for creating Windows applications so I´ve decided to learn
freepascal (with Lazarus Win32 port IDE Delphi clone). Have any of
you tried this with Firebird? If TurboCash is Open Source they
should also try to port it to freepascal.

Just my 2 cents....
Bye
Javier Soques
http://fbdll4vb.sourceforge.net

--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "Johan van Zyl" <johan@j...>
wrote:

> Hi
> Philip Copeman (philip@p...) is the owner of Pinksoft/TurboCash that
> dates back to about 1986. I think, in fact, that he put

TurboCAD on the

> market as well.
> TurboCash is VERY well established accounting package (it is now

open

> source) and is developed in Delphi using Paradox at the moment. He

is

> looking to move to another databse, he is leaning towards MySQL and

I want

> him to switch to FireBird. He is aiming to have 2 million TurboCash

users at

> a stage. Wouldn't it be nice if they all used FireBird?
> So I am trying to get Philip to get involved in this mailing list

and took

> it upon myself to post some of his opinions here.
> Please bear with me/us. I would really like a major accounting

system to

> switch to FireBird.
> Thx for understanding. BTW I prefer to be called Johan to Mr. van

Zyl<g>

>
> JVZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@t...]
> Sent: 23 July 2004 11:57
> To: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Firebird-general] XML / Philip Copeman
>
>
> At 11:20 AM 23/07/2004 +0200, you wrote:
> >Response from Philip Copeman philip@p...
> >BORLAND SAI GOGINT TO CREATE A LOT OF CRAP WITH ITS LATEST

MICROSOFT

> >ORIENTED STRATEGIES.
> >
> >THESE EMAILS ARE ALL THE MACHINATIOSN OF POEPLE BASICALLY PISSED

OFF WITH

> >THE ROUTE THAT BORLAND HAS TAKEN
> >
> >IF BORLAND GOES BACK TO SUPPORTING AND OPEN SOURCE DATA BASE THEN

WE WILL

> >ALL BE A BETTER OFF> I AM WORRIED THAT THEY CNA NO LONDER BE

TRUSTED>

> >
> >---------
> >
> >THE WORST MUST BE TO FIND YOURSELF LIEK PASTEL OR ACCPAC, OVER A

BARREL

> >GETTING FALYED IN PUBLIC WITHW CRAPPY SOLUTION LIKE PERVASIVE SQL

AND WITH

> >NOWHERE TO GO.
> >
> >\
>
> Where on earth do these cryptic messages SHOUTED in pidgin come

from? What

> on earth does the (discernible) content of this have to do with any
> Firebird topic, least of all the current thread?
>
> Since Mr Van Zyl posted this, perhaps he would care to enlighten

us...

>
> Helen
>
>
>
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