Allan wrote:
> Yes I was aware that the two where on separate development paths, just
> wasn't aware there was some animosity between the two. If that's what you
> are saying.
Originally, yes - some of the Firebird people were pretty peeved with
Borland (to put it mildly :-). But nowadays, most of them have accepted 'how
things are' and they're too busy improving Firebird to worry about it much
any more.
The Interbase engineering team is apparently forbidden from any contact with
the Firebird people, but seeing as Borland now sees Firebird as a competitor
essentially, that is kind of inevitable.
Firebird is really improving in leaps and bounds. They have some very
talented (and prolific!) developers involved. The Interbase codebase had
languished over the years and much neeeded (but hard to justify to
management :-) refactoring and reengineering work had piled up.
Firebird 2 is being reengineered in C++ with full OO design and exception
handing. This will finally allow some pervasive multi-threading improvements
which should really improve Firebird scalability on SMP machines.
TTFN,
Paul.
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