John,

I really like your idea. Sad to say, Firebird's support
for shared hosting is relatively non-existant. So even
if there were more web apps available, users would
have trouble finding hosting.

Of course desktop apps are a different story.

Thanks,

Kevin Rood


--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "John
Armstrong" <siberian@...> wrote:

>
> 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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