> At 08:26 PM 10/06/2006, you wrote:
> > > At 04:18 AM 10/06/2006, you wrote:
> > > >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?
>
> Someone asked a similar question at the symposium and Malcolm Groves
> 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
>