On Jul 29, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Carlos H. Cantu wrote:
> And what holds them from using Firebird, no matter what decision is made
> about the API?
Good question. And what could be holding back everyone else?
See the chart in the reference I posted earlier in this thread.
The line from the movie "Field of Dreams" is especially true in open source,
"If you build it [well] they [the users] will come."
Point well taken on making problems for existing user base. I'm sure Oracle
layered JDBC on top of OCI.
> I'll not discuss what language is better, since such discussions are useless
> and endless. Firebird just need to provide ways for the most used languages
> to access it, and so far, we are doing well in this aspect, since we have
> plenty of drivers for a good number of languages (Java included). Delphi
> still represents a large amount of our user base, so just make sure that any
> changes will not break or cause them any trouble.
>
>
> 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.
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