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From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
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> Well, it took the InterBase(R) team nearly a year and a half to produce a
sub-release with this as the single feature of differentiation from the open
source code...

Oh well, I suppose I just demonstrated the natural tendency to underestimate the
complexity of software.

> It isn't as trivial as you seem to think - otherwise it would have been done
years ago. Heck, it would be in Firebird already...But, if it's such a good
thing, then it would be a great example of a Firebird enhancement that a
user-customer could provide funding for...alternatively, you could wait and see
if some capable programmer has a bunch of free time to donate to a very
pervasive change to FB 1.x...or wait for FB 2...

We haven't even funding for proper network cabling here!

It would probably be best for Firebird to copy Interbase, even if it is behind.
That would make life easier for people like us who may want to go either way,
depending on the liberality of the clients, and we would just live with the fact
that somethings wouldn't work under Firebird. But maybe the Firebird developers
have ambitions of their own...

I tried looking at www.fibplus.com but it was timing out. Looks interesting from
teh comments.

Regards,

mark