Well, that's a mighty big bite! But it seems to me that postgres and mySQL
people are those who are looking for alternatives to the MS/Oracle, so why
not agressively go for that "market" first? A worthy question is: Why are
those who are looking for alternatives to MS/Oracle not as often choosing
Firbird? It seems that going "straight to the top" given that so few have
even heard InterBase let alone Firebird, might not be the best way to go.

I am not saying that MS/Oracle should be the ultimate targets but rather I'm
arguing that the first step should be for FireBird to become the deFacto
standard RDBMS of choice in hte open source world. That and only then do I
believe that FB will have the critical mass of user acceptance and media
support to drive it towards the ultimate target.

rob (suddenly appearing again from the ether)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@...>
To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ib-support] OT: comments re: attracting users to interbase


>
> Do remember that our competition is not MySQL or PosgreSQL, but
> Microsoft and Oracle. There's space in the world for different
> databases with different focus.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ann
>