[Firebird-website] Firebird success stories on website

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi all,

Almost two weeks ago there was talk in firebird-support about placing
Firebird success stories, enthusiastic user comments etc. on the
website. (Thread: "Firebird is just a showoff!")

I think this would be very good to give people an impression of what
Firebird can achieve. One guy (Kevin) replied to a success story
posted by Lee Jenkins:

> This sounds awesome and will help me "sell" Firebird to potential
> but skeptical customers.

Shall we pick this up and create a page / pages for material like
this?

I'll copy part of the firebird-support thread underneath.


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog


  From: Lee Jenkins <le...@da...>
  Subject: [firebird-support] Firebird is just a showoff!


  We just installed our company's POS software recently at a large
  resort.  I posted about this project recently in this list.  I was
  so pleased with some news that I received today, that I thought it
  appropriate to share it with the list.

  Right now is a very busy time at this client site because of a
  yearly event taking place at this resort which is very popular.
  This site has:

  * FB1.5 On 2Ghz P4, SCSI, 1 Gig RAM running on Win2003.
  * 35 POS terminals positioned around the property at various bar,
    restaurant and kiosk profit centers.

  Networking (believe it not) is 10/100 Cat 5 and some of the runs are
  pretty long.  Personally, I thought they should have gone with
  Fiber...

  At any rate, today was one of the busiest days of the year.  There
  was a over 18,000 sales transactions posted today and the system
  didn't even blink!  To me, that is an incredible amount of
  data/activity.  Just imagine; each sale involves an average of say,
  5 line items for over 90,000 additional inserts.  And that is not
  even counting database activity for discounts, voids, employee clock
  ins, back office work and reporting, payment tenders and all the
  other peripheral activity including thousands of selects to present
  data to the users through touch screen GUI.

  I'm smiling like a cheshire cat....

  Thanks for a great product.



  From: Jacob Alberty <cal...@co...>
  Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Firebird is just a showoff!

  I can provide a success story as well, FireBird is powering one of
  the largest veterinary clinics in louisiana, I believe based on the
  rabies tags they give out they are #1 and top both #2 and #3
  combined, and the salesman selling the rabies vaccinations said they
  are in the top 10 for the us as well, the slowest systems are 128mb
  ram with a 533 mhz via procesccor and the server is a lowly 1gb ram
  and 800mhz pentium 3 with a 10k rpm scsi hard drive and it handles
  the system without a hitch, in all there are about 15 computer
  accessing, no word on how many transactions per day but if you guys
  are interested i can certainly dig up more information on it. the
  previous database for the system was a simple paradox db