> >Perhaps a similar situation with InterBase and Borland (you
> know that part
> >better *g*), but:
> >
> >- Without a loyal community of (Delphi) users/developers
> >- Without a small group who took the source code and
> initiated a completely
> >new project
> >- Without the possibility to let outsiders work on the source code
>
> I don't think this last one is valid. Borland made it's IB6
> tree read-only
> as well, even though it had no licensed customers for it.
> For Firebird, we
> did what open source lets you do: we duplicated the tree and
> started a new
> codebase that the existing community followed.

Yes, true. The "without" referred to CA and Ingres.


Regards,
Thomas