| Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] Re: History of Interbase's failure to make it to the big time. |
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| Author | Daniel Rail |
| Post date | 2005-10-20T10:08:13Z |
Hi,
At October 19, 2005, 9:06 PM, plinehan wrote:
it accurately reflects the market.
e-mail used to fill in the survey. Because if you tried to fill out
the survey a second time with the same e-mail, you would be given a
message thanking you to have already taken the survey. And in the case
of this particular survey, I don't remember somebody posting a message
in the newsgroups to say that Firebird was in it(and not all of the
survey questions did list the names of the RDBMSs). I knew about the
survey, because I was already on Evans mailing lists. And, most of
Evans surveys are commissioned by someone.
Otherwise, I do agree with your statement.
Firebird will probably be small shops or self-employed, and not
necessarily seeking employees at the moment. And, if I would be
advertising a job posting, I would only mention "SQL language
experience an asset".
--
Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)
At October 19, 2005, 9:06 PM, plinehan wrote:
>> See research by e.g. Evans, that says 28%That is only 28% of the survey respondents. Sure it doesn't mean that
>> in a survey with a skew unfavourable to FB/IB:
>> http://news.fyracle.org
> You're trying to tell me that 28% of
> software developers use Firebird. Sorry, but
> that just won't wash. Quite frankly, I would
> be surprised if 28% of software developers
> had even *_heard_* of Firebird.
it accurately reflects the market.
> Many of these so-called "surveys" ensure thatBut, in the case of Evans survey, the surveys were tracked by the
> the zealots of a particular product who have
> the time to waste vote 100's of times
e-mail used to fill in the survey. Because if you tried to fill out
the survey a second time with the same e-mail, you would be given a
message thanking you to have already taken the survey. And in the case
of this particular survey, I don't remember somebody posting a message
in the newsgroups to say that Firebird was in it(and not all of the
survey questions did list the names of the RDBMSs). I knew about the
survey, because I was already on Evans mailing lists. And, most of
Evans surveys are commissioned by someone.
Otherwise, I do agree with your statement.
> Take a look at www.dice.com, which AIUI, isNot to me. You'll probably find that most of those that develop with
> an American job search site - search for
> Oracle 12951
> Sybase 2067
> Interbase 3
> Firebird 9
> Sorry, but those figures are telling me
> something about installed base and
> importance and market share of product.
Firebird will probably be small shops or self-employed, and not
necessarily seeking employees at the moment. And, if I would be
advertising a job posting, I would only mention "SQL language
experience an asset".
> And it doesn't all have to do withI agree.
> difficulty of admin either.
> Sorry for the long rant, but I felt that thereEverybody can have their own opinion.
> were things that I needed to get off my
> chest.
--
Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)