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>>Why is it so persistently not happening with IB ? Year by year people
>>just do not start raving about it ? Are they all blind ?
>Yes
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I agree - but I also I think there are a few of "real" factors involved too.
The press writes about what people want to hear - economic reality.
IB is a mid-level player, it's an excellent "departmental" (in US terms)
database and makes an excellent embedded database (which is where their
strategy is focussed - they can get more bang for their marketing buck by
focussing on a technically aware market).
The reviews are generally about the "big" databases, MS has the dollars and
"share-of-mind" to breast beat their way into the articles - IB does not.
There has been a periodic ongoing debate on the Interbase list about exactly
this subject ever since I have been receiving it. Essentially the IB
response has been - we're throwing as much marketing $ at it as we can
afford, we're growing very rapidly with our current marketing $, and - we're
throwing as much new technology, speed, compliance etc at it as we can
afford.
FWIW I think they would do themselves a favour, by making life easy for
those evaluating it, by having a mature graphical administration tool. But -
I guess that as their market focus is on SQL-DB aware types - getting more
features into the back-end is a higher priority than a GUI tool.
Personally I've never had a problem making the case for IB - at the level
that I work (Corporate departmental / Mid-sized enterprise) by a)
quantifying the difference in DBA costs for IB vs Oracle, Informix et al and
b) pointing out the extra development cost of Delphi on SQL-Server. Only
once has speed been an issue - so I filled a table with 500,000 random
records and did a bunch of queries of the sort they wanted.
The only area that IB runs out of steam is at hundreds of concurrent users
with continuously high transaction rates - where the versioning engine,
which gives you a host of other real benefits, runs out of steam. So for 90%
of the NZ market it's the perfect back-end.
Max
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