Subject | Re: [Firebird-general]Promoting Firebird |
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Author | kevinarood |
Post date | 2008-12-11T05:06:51Z |
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:
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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:
>activity would be
> This is pie in the sky but a possibly high impact
> porting popular PHP/Mysql based products toFirebird and providing
> simple patches/migrations for it and thenexplaining on clear, user
> friendly terms, why this is important.database services, not
>
> Lets face it, most people are consumers of
> developers of those services. This I think its toPaul's point, how do
> we make Firebird relevant to the largemajority/masses of people who
> just want Wordpress/Gallery2/LatestPhpFade2.0.<paulhope@...> wrote:
>
> John-
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Paul Hope
> > I've been sort of following the discussions onFirebird Survival and
> > Firebird News letter and understand what folksare trying to achieve. I
> > would like to take small diversion ;-)contibutor to its survival
> >
> > Increasing the Firebird user base is an important
> > and ability to raise funds.newsletter stuff is aimed at
> >
> > As far as I can see all the website and
> > developers, who I agree are the immediatetarget. However developers have
> > customers, developers pitch to customers andpromote Firebird. When
> > customers or prospective customers go to checkout Firebird on the web they
> > will get very confused seeing lots of words theydont understand and get an
> > uneasy feeling seeing all the focus on gettingdonations.
> >seem to be anything pitched at the
> > Unless I've missed something there doesnt
> > prospective end user, IT manager or corporateevaluator. It would be
> > usefull to have one or two web pages thatpromoted Firebird to this
> > audience. Not too techy stuff, Firebirdcharacteristics like low
> > maintenance and cost of ownership, big nameusers, case studies etc to give
> > feeling of confidence.websites and programs (like
> >
> > This would provide a usefull link on developer
> > under the Firebird logo) and somewhere forpresentation material to
> > reference.removed]
> >
> > Just a thought.
> > Regards
> > Paul
> >
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