This is pie in the sky but a possibly high impact activity would be
porting popular PHP/Mysql based products to Firebird and providing
simple patches/migrations for it and then explaining on clear, user
friendly terms, why this is important.

Lets face it, most people are consumers of database services, not
developers of those services. This I think its to Paul's point, how do
we make Firebird relevant to the large majority/masses of people who
just want Wordpress/Gallery2/LatestPhpFade2.0.

John-

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Paul Hope <paulhope@...> wrote:
> 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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