> We currently are shipping IB5.6 and paying the license fees. That's all part
> of the product cost and has been for the years that we've been using IB.

Then you are lucky, or pehaps you can restrict yourselves to
the bits that work <g>

> We, and I'm only speaking for what the company says, have more than enough
> work to do, supporting our products and producing new products, so as much
> as some of us may like to work on FB, it won't happen.

We wasted 12 MONTHS trying to get IB5.6 stable, IB6 fixed
some of the problems, but it was not until Firebird fixed
the remaining faults that we could stop firefighting, and
let the systems just run. If you want a stop and start
system IB5.6 & IB6 are OK, but running 24/7 - forget it. We
still have niggles to clear, but now we don't have to Backup
and Restore every other network hickup.

p.s. We have some IB5.6 licences if anybodys interested.

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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services