Si Carter wrote:

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>>Don't give me MS as example! Their single goal is to make money!
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> Personally I think their example is a good one, our goal is sort of similar
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> products, their marketing is very, very good, and if FB can borrow the idea
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> Perhaps for naming we should be on Firebird 2006 (alpha/beta xxx)

One note : we should borrow good ideas , not the bad ones ;)
We should pass over Name change for versions
I don't think it gives any return :customers already learned the classic
numbering scheme - why confuse them with another one ? There are better
ways for marketing firebird : writing articles , keep an sharp eye over
competition (mysql,postgresql,mssql) , buy ads on NYtimes or google
...Open another tread with marketing ideas...


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Regards,

Marius - Firebird 3000 v12 Turbo - Omega version