On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I belive that Interbase story is very useful to understand what big > companies think about opensource. Borland moved to opensource with two > projects Interbase and Kylix: at today they abandon Interbase and continue > with Kylix.
1.) Kylix is *NOT* open sourced. It is entirely proprietary and sneers on standards akin with MS products. Complete vendor-lock-in if you use it. 2.) Borland has *NOT* abandoned Interbase. More than two years ago it looked as if they would, they released it into open source, saw the huge interest, and immediately withdrew - but leaving FireBird behind which has now a life of it's own. Maybe a win-win here: the free software community has FireBird, and Borland gets free maintenance and development feedback into Interbase. Horst
