On 11 Oct 2001, at 12:53, Paul Beach wrote:

>> Incidently, do you have any idea what the cross section between
> > Delphi and IB users are? Or are the only IB user Delphi users?
>
> Back when we did stats on this sort of stuff, something like 40% of
> the Borland tools users had used InterBase, of that 40%, 20% or so
> would go on to use InterBase seriously. There was other developer
> usage, based on InterBase's original history, but the core market was
> effectively Borland Tool users.
>
> However since Open Source, and everybody on the list, please feel free
> to add your 2c, I believe the usage of Firebird has widened
> considerably, and it is now being used in Web development along with a
> myriad of other projects.
>

I use FB with VisualC++ at the moment, I was introduced to it, via
looking for a good but inexpensive database that runs on a number of
platforms, and has good support. O/S certainly qualifies as
inexpensive, and you can't beat the support right here. It runs on
most of the required platforms NT, Linux, Solaris, etc. It would be
nice if FB could run on NetWare, but you can't have everything.

Paul
Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
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