I've been sort of following the discussions on Firebird Survival and
Firebird News letter and understand what folks are trying to achieve. I
would like to take small diversion ;-)

Increasing the Firebird user base is an important contibutor to its survival
and ability to raise funds.

As far as I can see all the website and newsletter stuff is aimed at
developers, who I agree are the immediate target. However developers have
customers, developers pitch to customers and promote Firebird. When
customers or prospective customers go to check out Firebird on the web they
will get very confused seeing lots of words they dont understand and get an
uneasy feeling seeing all the focus on getting donations.

Unless I've missed something there doesnt seem to be anything pitched at the
prospective end user, IT manager or corporate evaluator. It would be
usefull to have one or two web pages that promoted Firebird to this
audience. Not too techy stuff, Firebird characteristics like low
maintenance and cost of ownership, big name users, case studies etc to give
feeling of confidence.

This would provide a usefull link on developer websites and programs (like
under the Firebird logo) and somewhere for presentation material to
reference.

Just a thought.
Regards
Paul


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