On 27/03/2019 03:56, 'Jason Wharton' supportlist@...
[IBObjects] wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce that I was elected to be

the president of the

> Firebird Foundation today.

Hope you enjoy the experience as much as I did my time as Treasurer ...

> Also, I'm

still hoping for people's thoughts about having IBO situated more

>

closely with the Firebird development efforts. I'd like to keep the

>

Trustware License but make the sources publically accessible.

While I still have a small number of sites running IBO with their
Builder C++ windows code it's been some considerable time since I was
able even to compile that code :( Most of my windows powered sites were
lost when M$ bundled CRM in the package to make the extortionate cost of
upgrading XP systems up to Windows 7 more palatable to my then large
public sector client base so there is very litle need to rework that
software. The main thing that M$ did achieve was make Linux a more
popular alternative, and the remaining few sites are finally going to be
moved to web based solutions as tablets replace the desktop computers
the client code currently runs on. So personally I have little incentive
to do any windows based work. Although with the agro I'm getting from
keeping Firebird available in PHP I MAY need a Linux based C alternative!

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