DEC is a great example of why technical people should never be allowed to have
the final say in business decisions. There are others. Anyone else besides
Jim remember Wang Laboratories?
(I suppose the same could be said for letting the "suits" have the final say,
but that's an argument for another day.)
Jim makes a good point about JDBC accounting for probably 80+% of modern
database access. Every young developer knows Java and JDBC, and the standard
makes it easy for tool developers to support the database. (Anyone know of amy
JPA implementations for Firebird?)
If it is decided that FB3 needs a new interface, it might make very good sense
to design to the JDBC standard and work backwards to the C//C++ interface.
A review of database popularity might help to frame this decision realistically:
http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/relational+dbms
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