On 11/13/06, Bernard Devlin <knowledgeworks@...> wrote:

>
> Great news that 2.0 is released, and also good to see that the people
> doing the Firebird PR stuff are getting the new release noticed.

if you have contacts at it papers/sites please help with word spreading

But I was saddened to see how ignorant the responses on Slashdot are.

> I've seen other products I used get discussed on Slashdot, but I
> never saw quite so much noise and so little information. Almost all
> the useful information re: Firebird in that discussion is already
> being drowned by comments aboout Mozilla. That Mozilla debacle did
> untold damage to the visibility of Firebird.

yep these are the normal trolls on /. , they usually get involved in
almost all flamewars
kde vs gnome , win vs lin , ubuntu vs fedora ...
after 10 years of slashdot i think i'm used to them (got an thick skin)

That's not to say that the more discerning readers won't go directly

> to the linked Firebird information rather than reading the discussion.
> If they are interested in databases and they see that the discussion
> is so dumb, then they will hopefully have the sense to check out the
> origin of the discussion.

slashdot news is important because is read by millions of people , and is
read by manu journalists too (news is spread further)

Congrats to all involved in Firebird 2.0. Since I first found out

> about Firebird 1.0 four years ago, I've never been tempted to use a
> different db.

we all can help by voting this news on digg.com (to reach the front page)

http://digg.com/programming/Firebird_Final_V2_0_Released

i pointed to www.ibphoenix.com release area (that server is up)
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developer flamerobin.org


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