Miroslav Penchev wrote:

>But you will be glad to use a truly legend of OpenSource, to make
>thinks with it, and to talk to others that you come together with a
>unique product on which words like "free", "excellent" and so on are
>just not enough to describe it.
>

In IT business, I still think that the word "Legend" is quite the
oposite of new. People like new stuff. That's why they upgrade something
all the time. :-)

People use Firebird mainly because of it's great features. "Free" is a
bonus.

On a White Paper, beeing a Legend it's quite important. It will show our
history, our present, and what we are doing regarding the future.

>It can be described as a "living
>Legend" and probably with one whitepaper about the past, present and
>future of Firebird as proof that it is a Legend. Also there is no need
>to proof that Firebird is a legend – the other has need to proof that
>they will become a Legend. And probably after 5 years when Firefox
>have 50% of browsers market they will change their slogan to something
>legendary (the browser who defeat MS IE)
>
>

That's my oppinion as well. I never argue that we are not a Legend. I
argue that I don't believe that changing our slogan from "Relational
database for the new millenium" to "Firebird - The Legend" will make
people curious about it, and try it out.

A slogan it's not easy to find. And it's always easy to create the
first, that changing something.

What I know for sure is that I like "Always", I like "Just do It", and I
like "We try harder". They are commercial, yes, but a slogan is always
commercial - it's what we use to sell our product, brand, service or
image. We want to use it to promote our product. We want to use it in
t-shirts, in coffee cups, and thinks like that.

And we want to change it according to reality. It will be quite dificult
to change from a Legend to something else. :-)

Artur