At 11.54 05/01/2001 +0100, you wrote:

>Claudio,
>
>> > Maybe the trustware scheme itself needs more marketing. But the italian
>> > market for IBO is small anyway...
>>
>> Don't you think that probably the IB market itself may be still small in
>> Italy or not?
>
>Yes it is. But something is moving.
>The point is that only a small fraction of the small (but growing) group
>of IB developers in Italy seems to use IBO. The BDE, FIB+ and IBX seem
>to be preferred alternatives. I suspected that maybe IBO being perceived
>as a commercial (thus more costly) product could play a part on this
>trend.
>--
> ____
>_/\/ando
>

Nando as you know I am italian,
I try to sell IBO to my developer customers....
and I think that every one that uses IB for commercial developing
will buy IBO only that IBO should be explained better.
I mean:
the ones that now hosts italian IBO home page when Borland created IBX
at SMAU 1999 told me and another friend that IBO wasn't a good package
as it was developed on a mind view of only one person and only by one person.
Now that the time is changed and that they could have some income from IBO
they
created a page and something else.
This is an example of why here IBO isn't good known.
There are also many other people that think that you should use only free
software development tools.
And usually I ask them this question:
"Do you usually sell programs or give them as presents to your customers?"
and I usually get no answers.....
My two cents,
Marco