Re: The Contrarians Development Language

From: damian marquez (dmarquez34_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:49:59 -0300

"Nick Hodges (TeamB)" <nickhodges@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4012fdf6@newsgroups.borland.com...
> damian marquez wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, indeed. I NEVER had to do ANYTHING to maintain my Interbase
> > databases.
>
> Why it isn't ten times more popular than it is is a mystery to me.

The problem perhaps is that it stays in a middle category... For being a
player in
the major leagues (Oracle, SQL Server) it would need much more than
technical
perfection... ... And for being a small/medium-sized company solution is
perhaps too
expensive (they might choose MySQL, even Firebird).... So IMHO it's hard to
find a
big market for it.

Going back to the Clipper replacement tool. I think that Delphi + Interbase
+ a good reporter (like
FastReport) is such a winning combination. Yeah, people can get that part by
part, but if
Borland would wrap it up as "Business Database Developer Kït" at a good
price it might be a winner.
As WIN32 becomes legacy it might be a good way to get rid of old timers (bad
joke...)

I know I may appear short-sighted, but I still think many developers only
need strong and easy
solutions for developing their database products.

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