Huh? I'm sorry, Was my question related to money? so Money talks, right?

William

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Steinmaurer <ts@...>wrote:

>
>
> > Thanks for the suggestion. I'm using DISCHARGE_DATE + 0 instead. What I
> > don't understand is why its keep changing in different versions. Its a
> > nightmare for us to maintain the databases. I have received a numerous if
> > calls from my customers (We have thousands customers that using Firebird)
> > that complaints the speed issues after upgrading to v2.1.4.
>
> Hearing this, I wonder if you are a Firebird Foundation member/sponsor?
>
> Imagine you grep a particular amount per server/customer per year, you
> could easily get in touch with the Firebird Foundation to somehow
> sponsor particular improvements / bugfixes very easily. You possibly
> could even get a hand on a private build.
>
> Sorry, but people think that everything is free beer, which in detail
> isn't the case. Development of Firebird costs money, quite some money,
> which people might not know, so, perhaps you could return a fraction of
> what you save/earn by using Firebird?
>
> Sorry, could not resist, had a hard week. ;-)
>
> --
> With regards,
>
> Thomas Steinmaurer
> Upscene Productions
> http://www.upscene.com
> http://blog.upscene.com/thomas/
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