"Milan Babuskov" <milanb@...> wrote in message
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>
> IMHO, Firebird has potential to become #1 in the embedded database
> market. If we want that to happen, we just need two things: make it
> known and make it easy for beginners to jump in and use it.

Borland's marketing dept tried that strategy for years without success. Do
you remember this phrase?

EMBED - DEPLOY - RELAX.

It's still at my site. :-)

They positioned IB as an embedded db and hence corporate customers thought
it was a toy unable to handle concurrent load.

C.
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Claudio Valderrama C.
SW developer, consultant.
http://www.cvalde.net - http://www.firebirdsql.org