> Helen,
>
> (The Open Source database seems to have gone out of fashion...)
>
> Helen
>
> All for Open and Open for All
> InterBase Developer Initiative · http://www.interbase2000.org
> _______________________________________________________

Coming from someone so active in the IB community and willing to help
out newcomers, this statement really suprises me.

I do not claim to be at your level of expertise, but I would have to
disagree with you. I feel the open source database is just coming
into fashion.

For several months now, I have been a subscriber to numerous BDE
replacement related newsgroups and trust me, there are alot of
unhappy customers that will soon be converting over to IB. The BDE
with a Desktop DB is a dead end road. Developers know this and are
going to have to make a choice. IB being open source, with such great
support from the community along with an excellent set of tools like
IBO, makes this choice almost to easy.

No serious developer is going to jump on board the open source wagon
until it has had time to stabalize. It appears to me that the
Firebird project has picked up the ball dropped by Borland and the
future of InterBase looks bright.

Chris Landowski
Dynamic Software Solutions