> - The product wasn't born as open source, but it became open source as a
> result of some decisions the owning company seems to regret today? (As

Bill

> Todd himself wrote, "nobody knows exactly why top management decided to

open

> source IB initially".)

I do, but thats for another day :-)

> - Borland has worldwide presence but only a few partners handle IB
> adequately. IBPhoenix has points of contacts in a few strategic zones

only.

> Who's our local and proficient support company?

We have contacts all over the world.... but not enough volume of business to
support them, yet - unfortunately.

> There's no need to bite the neighbors. Look, even Del Yocam practiced that
> when he was Borland's CEO: he never mentioned IB, he always praised Oracle
> only.

Not surprising when he had just closed a multi-million $ deal with them for
JBuilder.

Regards
Paul