| Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] Re: Firebird's slogan |
|---|---|
| Author | Miroslav Penchev |
| Post date | 2005-04-10T14:08:03Z |
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:15:24 -0000, Adam <s3057043@...> wrote:
points:
1. Totally free for any type of usage
2. Reliable for huge enterprise applications (I know that there are some
lacks about this area, but they are not crucial for middle size of
enterprise application).
3. Low maintenance.
These things are very important for huge applications and large projects.
To me that area is not fascinated by Firebird. I work in a company which
makes applications for banks and financial institutions and these three
things are very important for your clients. We use MS SQL mainly because
of marketing and the name of 'MS' behind. To persuade my managers and our
clients that Firebird is best solution for them ? I need strong slogan and
'10 line whitepaper' to make them to think about open source RDBMS.
I also heavy use Firebird 1.5 in other way with much smaller clients and
with no boss on top of me ;) ? in that case I do not need anything to
convince my clients or some other else. My idea is that for small projects
? developers are persons who make the decision and developers know very
well all benefits of Firebird. Also good developers do not decide about
RDBMS only from slogan, they need a good whitepapers, good examples of
working systems and so on. We need a way to convince the IT leaders and
consumer?s leaders for benefits of Firebird. In large software companies
developers does not have power to make decisions about RDBMS of projects.
As you can see my English is not good enough to think in English (for good
slogan) but I will try to help on marketing steps to make Firebird more
popular.
TIA,
--
Miro
>From my point of view - the main goal of slogan should be these three
> For example, MySQL is only now introducing ACID compliancy etc. Thats
> nice, but it is going to take a while to iron out teething issues
> before it becomes safe to use. PostgreSQL has only recently had a
> official windows port.
>
> I believe one of the big sell points is that it is totally free to use
> and distribute with any software, no matter how you decide to license.
> It is a proven dbms, with very low maintenance overheads, excellent
> performance, a tiny footprint (both disk and memory), with an active
> development and support community.
points:
1. Totally free for any type of usage
2. Reliable for huge enterprise applications (I know that there are some
lacks about this area, but they are not crucial for middle size of
enterprise application).
3. Low maintenance.
These things are very important for huge applications and large projects.
To me that area is not fascinated by Firebird. I work in a company which
makes applications for banks and financial institutions and these three
things are very important for your clients. We use MS SQL mainly because
of marketing and the name of 'MS' behind. To persuade my managers and our
clients that Firebird is best solution for them ? I need strong slogan and
'10 line whitepaper' to make them to think about open source RDBMS.
I also heavy use Firebird 1.5 in other way with much smaller clients and
with no boss on top of me ;) ? in that case I do not need anything to
convince my clients or some other else. My idea is that for small projects
? developers are persons who make the decision and developers know very
well all benefits of Firebird. Also good developers do not decide about
RDBMS only from slogan, they need a good whitepapers, good examples of
working systems and so on. We need a way to convince the IT leaders and
consumer?s leaders for benefits of Firebird. In large software companies
developers does not have power to make decisions about RDBMS of projects.
As you can see my English is not good enough to think in English (for good
slogan) but I will try to help on marketing steps to make Firebird more
popular.
>That is true only for small projects.
> Firebird sells itself.
TIA,
--
Miro