Re: [stellation-res] Some database questions, with major performance imp

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 11 August 2002 06:34 pm, Dave Shields wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:17:58PM +0000, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > With a quick web scan, the things that I've found that look like
> > that support this:
> >
> > (1) Inprise/Firebird (or whatever they're calling it these days). This is
> > the system that Borland open-sourced.  I've heard very little about this,
> > so I'd like to hear ay experiences that anyone has had with it. It looks
> > to have really good cross-platform support, and they seem very serious
> > about solid JDBC support, but it's currently only
> >   beta.
>
> I have no detailed knowledge of any of your proposals, but I note that
> Borland is a member of the Eclipse consortium, and perhaps they might
> welcome an opportunity to showcase their stuff and also help our project.

That could go either way... They did very poorly by the open-source
release, and the latest release is *not* open-source. The source
they released was adopted by a non-Borland group of developers,
and re-branded as "Firebird" because Borland's handling of the
open-source was so bad that developers weren't willing to work with
Borland on it. The new version of Firebird (which we could potentially
use) and the new release of Interbase are two different things. 

Borland also released an SCM system called "Marion"
using their DB as a back-end, and it landed with a spectacular thud as 
everyone ignored it.

	-Mark

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