> Congratulations Paul, indeed they did update their site and removed
> Firebird from their comparison! That tells a lot, doesn't it? Anyone know
> whether dbexperts is a big distributor of PostgreSQL or just a minor
> company having chewed too much?

They're still saying the same of IB - which is also plain wrong :)


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
InterBase Workbench - the developer tool for InterBase & Firebird
Firebird Workbench - the developer tool for Firebird
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

"This is an object-oriented system.
If we change anything, the users object."

> Set
>
> At 17:24 04.02.2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >At 10:46 PM 2/4/2003 +1100, Alan McDonald wrote:
> > >still there
> > >http://www.dbexperts.net/documentation/comparison
> >
> >
> >I sent them an e-mail, below is the response.
> >
> >Dear Mr Paul Beach
> >
> >Thanks for the information. We will be updating our site to be accurate

with

> >the new information.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Robert Stern
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: info@...
> >To: info@...
> >Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 3:21 PM
> >Subject: dbExperts - Contact
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Contact
> >
> >Company
> >Name Paul Beach
> >Position CEO
> >Telephone +44 1844 354465
> >E-mail pbeach@...
> >Information Requested
> >Comments Re. http://www.dbexperts.net/documentation/comparison And

Firebird,

> >this is pretty much all wrong.
> >1. There are versions of Firebird for, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX,

MacOS,

> >Sinix as well as Linux and Windows.
> >2. Features and ACID - Firebird supports ACID transactions, if you want

to

> >argue the point feel free.
> >3. Concurrent Transactions - Perhaps you can tell me what you mean here?
> >If it means what I think it means, then YES Firebird supports multiple
> >concurrent transactions all at the same time.
> >4. SQL 99 is supported where applicable, cf the Stored Procedure Language
> >which is more compliant with SQL 99 than most other Stored Procedure
> >implementations.
> >5. There is a free open source ODBC driver, plus JDBC Driver, plus .NET
> >driver.
> >
> >All in all you get about 2/10 for accuracy.
> >
> >Regards
> >Paul
>
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