Bite firebird is now a common practice among Borland guys. In Brazil,
Borland was doing an ALM tour. I was told that in almost every event,
IB guys were saying that Firebird is not stable and that IB is far
superior than FB, etc, etc.

Fortunatelly the listeners at the events seems to take care of
defending Firebird. There is one case that made me laugh:

IB guy said that IB is far superior than Firebird since it allows the
developer to cancel running Queries when they are killing the server.
One of the listeners stand up and said: "So IB is done for lame
programmers that do not know how to contruct queries".

PS: I was not there, I'm just telling what I heard.

Another interesting thing that they are saying is that IB 7 was able
to restore many corrupted FB databases(?!).

Carlos
http://www.warmboot.com.br
FireBase - http://www.FireBase.com.br

>>Who did the presentation, and where was it?

PB> Manoli Rodokakis, MD of Borland South Africa, and Darren Cowder, who is (I
PB> think) the senior product manager for Borland products for Borland South
PB> Africa.
PB> Darren (who comes across as having more technical knowledge) was the one
PB> who did all the slamming of Firebird.
PB> It was held in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as Johannesburg.

PB> Thanks, that explains it....

PB> Paul