On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:07, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > Firebird is not popular. Unfortunately people have refused to look > at anything but the two historically free databases when, for instance, > SAPDB is far more capable (I haven't had time to experiment with > Firebird) > > The fact the Mozilla people hadn't heard about Firebird is NOT an > excuse: at one point they learned the name had been taken and they > refused to change, instead they try to bully the less known project. > > The name being in use for music, cars or oatflakes is not an argument: > names are exclusive only in the same domain of activity. Not even Microsoft have (yet) said that Databases and Web Browsers are the same 'domain'. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
