Subject Re: Who uses Firebird?
Author Carlos H. Cantu
Yes Ivan, but those lists includes all kind of companies... I want
only the "big" ones, or the ones whose names will cause good impact ;-)

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Carlos

--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "Ivan Prenosil"
<Ivan.Prenosil@...> wrote:
>
> > 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
>