Re: [Firebird-website] [Firebird-general] Re: Fb Website

[Giovanni P. <gpr...@so...>]

Milan Babuskov wrote:
> FWIW, I agree with Pavel. There are many ways that database can get
> broken and then the website is either down, or throws error messages 
> which leaves a very ugly and unprofessional impression to visitors.
>
>   

A whole lot of other things leave a very ugly and unprofessional 
impression to visitors.

Please have a look at:

http://www.sqlite.org/
http://www.postgresql.org/
http://couchdb.apache.org/
http://www.ingres.com/

and then at

http://www.firebirdsql.org/

and see how much it hurts. I don't even direct our clients the main site 
anymore, I just send them a direct link to the download.

But in the last 10 years, any sugestion, offer, or actual contribution 
has been grounded by attacks and resistance to change.

Want to talk about changing the layout?
Talk is cheap, do not disturb the ones doing things.

You actually do something?
You should have talked about it before.

Some years ago I even paid a graphic designer to produce some layouts, 
but before she was finished someone else proposed some reasonably good 
layouts and was attacked so badly that I decided to avoid the same fate.

DB driven sites make change to the structure of the site quite painless.
And 99% of the professional sites around the world are db driven. It 
can't be that bad.  BTW it's really not the message an open source DBMS 
should give, unless we want people to believe that MySQL is stabler than 
Firebird.

-- 
Giovanni