On 11/13/06, marius popa <mapopa@...> wrote:

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>
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> 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
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> <http://flamerobin.org>

Here is some sites that Firebird release news appeared
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35689
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4452337393.html

here is the PR status for this release (if you have gmail account i can
invite to contribute)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pf8DWZAfAiZKXM3baxwr4Rg


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