Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

> 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. :-)

I never used InterBase, so I wouldn't know. I was introduced to this
story somewhere at Firebird 1.0 RC 1, or something like that.

But I'll look it up at your website.

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

Makes sense. Ok, let's drop the #1 in embedded market idea.

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