Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hi All, I think more than 6000 people here should be more active in terms of Firebird visibility support - this poll received only 29 votes for Firebird. Also, it would be nice to have more testimonials from Firebirders: http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/testimonials/ (submit your testimonial in t

Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Lester Caine
Alexey Kovyazin wrote: > I think more than 6000 people here should be more active in terms of Firebird > visibility support - this poll received only 29 votes for Firebird. I think these particular polls are getting a bit tired. There were a lot more votes in general last year - I think? From my p

Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Tim Ward
Not everyone here chose Firebird for their project because they thought it was the world's best database. Probably rather more people had no choice at all, being assigned to a project that was already using Firebird. And the same will apply to any user community, of course. -- Tim Ward

RE: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Maya Opperman
We chose Firebird ourselves, and love Firebird. We use Windows though, not Linux, but we do have a few sites that have chosen to use a Linux server. Haven't voted on the poll, as we really have no Linux related question to ask, so don't qualify to vote on that poll. Have added a testimonial to

Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Thank you, Maya! Your testimonial is visible now. Regards, Alexey Kovyazin We chose Firebird ourselves, and love Firebird. We use Windows though, not Linux, but we do have a few sites that have chosen to use a Linux server. Haven't voted on the poll, as we really have no Linux related ques

Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Carlos H. Cantu

Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Alexandre Benson Smith
agree more that Firebird users lost his passion... Why ? I don't know... Em 5/2/2014 10:39, Carlos H. Cantu escreveu: Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions From my own experience with the number of votes in polls at firebidNews.org an

Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Vinkenoog
Hello Carlos, > This LinuxQuestions poll is even "worse" in such aspect, since not everyone > uses FB on Linux, and even when they use, most people don't wanna waste 5 > minutes registering to a site they will not use, just to be able to vote por > FB. I would say that in the past, Firebird use

Re: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Carlos H. Cantu
Paul, IMHO, the major reason for the "decreasing passion" is the (too) long periods of apparent "no activity" that we have between each FB official release. People just get "bored". A new release coming out creates a general "hype" making people excited, feeling that the product is alive and movin

RE: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Maya Opperman
Nowadays, I'm very particular about what I sign up for. Once in a while I go through my gmail account (with about 800 unread mails at the moment) and unsubscribe from anything I haven't managed to read in the past year, no matter how much I really wanted to get to doing so. If a poll does not l

RE: [firebird-support] OT: Vote for Firebird as Database of the Year 2013 at LinuxQuestions

2014-02-05 Thread Helen Borrie
At 07:01 p.m. 6/02/2014, Maya Opperman wrote: >Nowadays, I'm very particular about what I sign up for. OK, time to move this topic to where it should have been from the start. (The "OT" tag shows that the original poster knew it, too.) Please sign up to firebird-general - that's your general "c