> Just out of curiosity.
>
> Having watched industry for several years I still cannot grasp one thing.
> How come that, being such a wonderful database, IB is never ever listed in
> DB products reviews or anything like that. It is always Oracle,MS,Informix
> and Sybase people are speaking about. The only place you can hear about IB
> is Borland user groups/lists.
>
> Delphi came out when there was VB,C++,Gupta,PowerBuilder etc. And being a
> great product, it had taken one of the leading places in development tools
> area, having moved others slightly out of the way.
>
> Why is it so persistently not happening with IB ? Year by year people just
> do not start raving about it ? Are they all blind ?
Its a dedicated DB - more designed for embeded systems. A lot of places
will not buy a DB if it doesn't need a staff of 5 to run it
(Oracle/MSSQL).
Oh, and maybe a bit lacking in the marketing dept. With the release of
MSSQL 7 and its lack of performance, they should be pushing it HARD.
Just IMO.
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