From: Tom C. <tco...@au...> - 2001-04-12 17:29:10
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> > You forget about the many, many developers who have products relying on the > current API of Interbase. Our company relies on third party products which > would be broken if FireBird suddenly neglects compatibility issues. > > Our product was designed when IB was open sourced. We wouldn't be able to > sell our products with the new pricings of IB. Luckily FireBird has come to > the rescue. If FireBird was to change core compatibility, our product would > become useless, i.e. our company would be out of business. > Given the availability of tools and expertise, it would not be a problem to export an InterBase database and import it into a Firebird database. It's done every day with SQL DB's. But then, you and other developers and users would have to make a choice. Maybe that's not such a bad thing. |