Hi all,
Regarding the profile of IB, I guess there is an expectation that it should be up there
with the big names such as Oracle, Informix, Sybase, and MSSQL etc.
The truth is these products need profile to get used, and hence have very large
marketing budgets to maintain their profile against their perceived competition.
IB on the other hand appears to be chosen for purely technical reasons, and while it
has to do battle with the IT Manager mindset, where decisions are made on the basis
of what they read in journals etc, it is still making its presence felt in marketplace
where it counts - ie on machines. As an embedded database, IB is often installed in
such a way that the client does not know that they have a RMDBS installed. One of
its advantages is that the customer need never know. While this "stealth" capability is
an advantage for suppliers ( low maintenance overhead - no DBA required ), is means
that there is no need to hype it to the customer.
Also, do not forget that what appears in journal reviews IS based on their advertising
budgets with those magazines - this is the real world you know!
kr
Gary
At 10:18 on 2/03/1999 Alex wrote
>From: Alex Kouznetsov, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Just out of curiosity.
>
>Having watched industry for several years I still cannot grasp one thing.
>How come that, being such a wonderful database, IB is never ever listed in
>DB products reviews or anything like that. It is always Oracle,MS,Informix
>and Sybase people are speaking about. The only place you can hear about IB
>is Borland user groups/lists.
>
>Delphi came out when there was VB,C++,Gupta,PowerBuilder etc. And being a
>great product, it had taken one of the leading places in development tools
>area, having moved others slightly out of the way.
>
>Why is it so persistently not happening with IB ? Year by year people just
>do not start raving about it ? Are they all blind ?
>
>Alex
>
>
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