...in two months I will be leaving my job as Senior Analyst Programmer and joining Her Majestys Constabulary. For pay, this will be a massive drop to what ive enjoyed for many years.
You mirrored my thoughts adzactly, with the exception that you missed out the ability for a forum to take advantage of other RDBMS features like Stored Procedure and triggers etc.
I ended up creating an open source Forum written in C# which uses Firebird at the backend (with the option to plugin other databases)
It's hard to get more attention if your "competitors" are of PostgreSQL caliber.
LOL
Postgres do major releases every 6-12 months and is getting better all the time at faster rate.
Firebird has, as I understand it, gone through major internal changes over the last several years, this has all been geared around making the internal code more flexible, easier to maintain and easier to code.
With this in mind, I'm pretty sure that the features people have been requesting will be easier to add post v2 release.
A new major release every 6 - 12 months is not always a good thing, working from a business side you need long term stability. What business is prepared to upgrade their product line that often, with all the risks and expense involved. To pick M$ as an example, do you think that waiting several years between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 [approximately 5 years:-)] is going to damage their product offering?
Personally I feel that Firebird is holding its own, it has released several versions over the last five years, its user base *is* growing, this is evident by the number of people joining the communinty, so what that it isn't on version 18.2.3.123, it offers a lot of features which people want, coupled with high reliability, availability and extremly low overhead.
Carrying between 44 and 84 pounds of backpack will negate the need to carry heavy batteries.
So how heavy are batteries for MP3 players and PDA's these days?
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...in two months I will be leaving my job as Senior Analyst Programmer and joining Her Majestys Constabulary. For pay, this will be a massive drop to what ive enjoyed for many years.
Wow!
You mirrored my thoughts adzactly, with the exception that you missed out the ability for a forum to take advantage of other RDBMS features like Stored Procedure and triggers etc.
I ended up creating an open source Forum written in C# which uses Firebird at the backend (with the option to plugin other databases)
... as I don't believe MS has done a single thing to help. Spambayes (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/) if it helps.
It's hard to get more attention if your "competitors" are of PostgreSQL caliber.
LOL
Postgres do major releases every 6-12 months and is getting better all the time at faster rate.
Firebird has, as I understand it, gone through major internal changes over the last several years, this has all been geared around making the internal code more flexible, easier to maintain and easier to code.
With this in mind, I'm pretty sure that the features people have been requesting will be easier to add post v2 release.
A new major release every 6 - 12 months is not always a good thing, working from a business side you need long term stability. What business is prepared to upgrade their product line that often, with all the risks and expense involved. To pick M$ as an example, do you think that waiting several years between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 [approximately 5 years :-)] is going to damage their product offering?
Personally I feel that Firebird is holding its own, it has released several versions over the last five years, its user base *is* growing, this is evident by the number of people joining the communinty, so what that it isn't on version 18.2.3.123, it offers a lot of features which people want, coupled with high reliability, availability and extremly low overhead.
I am glad that the US has control, DONT GIVE IT UP TO THE EU!!!!
... that Mr Smith is "girding his loins" than any impending law suit :)
Carrying between 44 and 84 pounds of backpack will negate the need to carry heavy batteries. So how heavy are batteries for MP3 players and PDA's these days?