It's good to have a core user base, but what is the trend?
I just spoke with a company that for a number of reasons would like to move
some 800 systems off of Delphi.
What language are they considering? Java. Their choice for database access?
JDBC. Why? Flexibility .
JDBC allows them to code to a widely supported and accepted industry standard.
With that port completed they would then have more flexibility to choose
another database to support their product.
They would then need to be given compelling reasons to stay with Firebird.
There are basically only two options for this project: Grow, or Die.
On Jul 28, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Carlos H. Cantu wrote:
>
> Jim makes a good point about JDBC accounting for probably 80+% of modern
> database access. Every young developer knows Java and JDBC, and the
> standard makes it easy for tool developers to support the database.
>
>
> Due to legacy reasons (IB, Borland, etc), Firebird is still very related to
> Delphi. Many years ago, I ran a poll at FireBase so people could indicate
> what language they use to access Firebird, and 84% used Delphi.
>
> Back in 2008, I ran similar pool at FirebirdNews, and Delphi got 64% of the
> votes. Java got 5%. Total votes were 887.
>
> I guess now (2014), Delphi still represents at last 50% of our user base.
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