| Subject | RE: [IBO] IBO.NET? |
|---|---|
| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2006-06-10T11:06:50Z |
At 08:26 PM 10/06/2006, you wrote:
replied that he thought he was probably responsible for starting that
rumour. Apparently he commented somewhere (else) - possibly in a
blog - that DevCo would not necessarily be under the old constraints
that kept Borland and open source apart. It appears some people
construed it as referring to Firebird but it seems he was talking
about the kinds of things that would be alternatives to ALM and the
other project management tools.
During *my* question time I was asked whether Firebird and InterBase
would be merging once the DevCo/Borland divorce happened. I said not
as far as I knew. Borland had never shared its source or its
technical intentions for IB with the Firebird developers and I had
heard no indication that DevCo proposed to start doing that. Malcolm
Groves did not jump up and say anything more interesting on the
subject. I also spent about an hour and a half one-to-one with
Malcolm (who is a very friendly chap, by the way) and one of the
places he was careful not to go was InterBase.
When addressing the two groups (both days) he put a lot of emphasis
on the fact that there were things he wasn't allowed to talk about
because of the due diligence process that the business stuff has to
go through; and other things he couldn't talk about because he just
didn't know about them.
Helen
> > At 04:18 AM 10/06/2006, you wrote:Someone asked a similar question at the symposium and Malcolm Groves
> > >As yet I have not found a developer to port IBO over to .NET. I
> > would still
> > >like to do that.
> > >
> > >How do you like .NET? If possible, I'd like to hear everyone's
> > opinion on
> > >the importance that IBO be ported to run in the .NET environment.
> >
> > It's an interesting question. I've just been on a "mini-tour" of
> > Australian Delphi users, speaking at their Symposia in Melbourne and
> > Adelaide. A show of hands in both venues yielded (apart from the
> > presenters) a total of five people who were deploying .NET
> > applications using Delphi and a total of zero (or perhaps one) using
> > VCL.NET. That was over a total of ~180 Delphi users.
> >
>
>Helen - I was under the understanding that there was going to be some kind
>of announcement about Firebird and Interbase being encouraged to heal old
>wounds and perhaps work (closer) together under DevCo... any comment?
replied that he thought he was probably responsible for starting that
rumour. Apparently he commented somewhere (else) - possibly in a
blog - that DevCo would not necessarily be under the old constraints
that kept Borland and open source apart. It appears some people
construed it as referring to Firebird but it seems he was talking
about the kinds of things that would be alternatives to ALM and the
other project management tools.
During *my* question time I was asked whether Firebird and InterBase
would be merging once the DevCo/Borland divorce happened. I said not
as far as I knew. Borland had never shared its source or its
technical intentions for IB with the Firebird developers and I had
heard no indication that DevCo proposed to start doing that. Malcolm
Groves did not jump up and say anything more interesting on the
subject. I also spent about an hour and a half one-to-one with
Malcolm (who is a very friendly chap, by the way) and one of the
places he was careful not to go was InterBase.
When addressing the two groups (both days) he put a lot of emphasis
on the fact that there were things he wasn't allowed to talk about
because of the due diligence process that the business stuff has to
go through; and other things he couldn't talk about because he just
didn't know about them.
Helen