Subject Re: [Firebird-general]Promoting Firebird
Author kevinarood
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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