> This can be easily solved creating a public list of big or famous
> companies who actually uses FB, so you can say: "Look this! All those
> great companies uses Firebird and are happy with it".

There are already two similar lists (not sure how much up-to-date):

Users of Firebird
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&s=1141404107:473933&page=ibp_users_firebird

Organizations using Interbase.
http://www.cvalde.net/WhoUsesIB.htm


Ivan P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos H. Cantu"
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:13 PM
Subject: [Firebird-general] Who uses Firebird?


> People,
>
> It seems that many people have problems with some customers when they
> sugest the use of Firebird instead of SQLServer, Oracle, etc.
>
> Many companies are afraid of using FB, because it is not "famous" and
> probably they never heard about it.
>
> This can be easily solved creating a public list of big or famous
> companies who actually uses FB, so you can say: "Look this! All those
> great companies uses Firebird and are happy with it".
>
> I can compile such list, but I need the help of everyone sending me
> information about those companies, number of max. connections,
> database size, FB server model, small description of the system(s)
> using FB, server OS, server hardware.
>
> Note that I just want "big" examples, so I sugest a filter to include
> only companies that fits in any of the following criteria:
>
> (DB size > 20GB) OR (Max. Connections > 100) OR (number of deployed
> servers > 100) OR (Company is VERY famous)
>
> What do you think?
>
> Carlos
> www.firebirdnews.org