To add to Helen's story, IB only represented 2 or 3 % of Borland's
revenue, even though it (IB Unit) was paying
for itself, some pin head accountant (I sell accounting software so I
know what I am talking about :-) )
decided that it wasn't worth the effort. Most of the Interbase staff
quit (loudly). Pressure was put
on Borland to release it open source. With the .com and open source
companies going strong with
IPOs, etc. it seemed like a reasonable thing to do. I understand that
a new executive came on board
shortly before the Open source deal was to close with IBPhoenix, and he
basically said why are we
doing this. Interbase got a reprieve from the "Borland" garbage can.

Now during this 6 to 9 months, Borland pissed off about 90% of the IB
supporters. I don't know
how it is doing now. I _*CAN NOT*_ see Firebird dying. Again, the only
thing hurting it is open connectivity
capability. Lot's of projects are moving forward in this area. Fire
the consultant and hire a programmer
to help with Firebird :-) . That is the best way to keep Firebird
strong. Who knows if IB will
get the ax later.

Helen Borrie wrote:

>At 04:35 PM 13-09-02 +1000, you wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>This is moer on that longevity of Firebird thread that I started a week or so
>>ago. The consultant who was uncertain about us relying on Firebird threw
>>in the
>>comment at the meeting that Borland has stopped development of Interbase.
>>
>>
>
>Get your consultant to check his facts.
>-- Borland stopped supporting its open source IB 6 version "officially" a
>few months ago but in fact they never really supported it at all.
>-- Firebird has no relationship to Borland whatsoever, either open source
>or its commercial editions.
>
>
>
>>Doesn
>>anyone know why Borland would give it away?
>>
>>
>
>Borland DID stop development on IB, actually in the late beta stages of IB
>6 in November, 1999. Time passed, lots happened, and the beta IB 6 code
>got open-sourced in July 2000. That's when the Firebird project
>started....and has gone on through several betas to the current full
>release Fb 1 and currently in development Fb 2, by way of Fb 1.5 (and no
>doubt several more alphas and betas in between).
>
>Meantime, Borland continued (sort of) developing InterBase commercially.
>There have been two commercial sub-releases since Firebird started and they
>have been touting the forthcoming v. 7 at all the Borcons.
>
>Does your consultant know something we don't know?
>
>
>
>>It's a confusing but fascinating picture.
>>
>>
>
>Tell me about it.
>:-)
>
>Helen
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Thomas Miller
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BSS Accounting & Distribution Software
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