Hi Alan,
EMB earns about 100mlns of usd per year and has ~500 headcount (may be
more, but it was at the times when they published such stats in their
presentations after acquiring CodeGear).
Firebird Project has funds about 110k of usd per year (24k of them are
being paid by IBSurgeon) and has 4 core developers plus several part
timers for testing, drivers, etc.
So, "very limited resources" of 100mln USD pie and very limited
resources of 110k are ~1000 times different. Embarcadero can hire good
C++ developer for Android and perform migration of InterBase codebase,
Firebird Project cannot afford it - all 4 core developers are working at
Firebird 3.0 and bug fixing of previous versions.
Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBSurgeon
www.ib-aid.com
We hear a lot of complaints about EMB and the Delphi product and it
all boils down to the notion of not enough resources being applied to
development and bug fixes.
But they have managed to supply, now, IBLite for both iOS and Android
with what looks like a full feature set.
How have they done that with what appears to be very limited resources
and commitment? And what magic might they have pulled off to move the
server into this arena? Is this not as difficult as we currently
think? For Firebird?
Regards
Alan McDonald
