I can only second that the more advertisement there is for firebird
database the better.

At 07:25 AM 5/12/2004, you wrote:

>Hi Lee,
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> > We just installed our company's POS software recently at a large resort. I
> > posted about this project recently in this list. I was so pleased with
> some
> > news that I received today, that I thought it appropriate to share it with
> > the list.
> >
> > Right now is a very busy time at this client site because of a yearly event
> > taking place at this resort which is very popular. This site has:
> >
> > * FB1.5 On 2Ghz P4, SCSI, 1 Gig RAM running on Win2003.
> > * 35 POS terminals positioned around the property at various bar,
> restaurant
> > and kiosk profit centers.
> >
> > Networking (believe it not) is 10/100 Cat 5 and some of the runs are pretty
> > long. Personally, I thought they should have gone with Fiber...
> >
> > At any rate, today was one of the busiest days of the year. There was a
> > over 18,000 sales transactions posted today and the system didn't even
> > blink! To me, that is an incredible amount of data/activity. Just
> imagine;
> > each sale involves an average of say, 5 line items for over 90,000
> > additional inserts. And that is not even counting database activity for
> > discounts, voids, employee clock ins, back office work and reporting,
> > payment tenders and all the other peripheral activity including
> thousands of
> > selects to present data to the users through touch screen GUI.
> >
> > I'm smiling like a cheshire cat....
>
>Wouldn't that be a great base for an "official" success story
>or case study?
>
>The FirebirdSQL Foundation committee discussed the need for
>such success stories several times, to increase the credibility
>of the Firebird project in public.
>
>I'm sure, the Foundation or IBPhoenix would be glad to
>get a more detailed case study, if you are able/allowed
>to provide detailed information, and if you have some
>free time to cook one up. ;-)
>
>Best Regards,
>Thomas Steinmaurer
>Former FirebirdSQL Foundation Committee Member
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