On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:10 PM, John Bird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz" target="_blank">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr" lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><div>Related – what is the official relationship between Interbase (Embarcadero et al) and the Firebird community?</div>
<div> </div><div>I get the impression they reluctantly tolerate each other – but I think Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero regret ever open sourcing Firebird</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I get that underflow feeling too and agree. Here, a lot of people who might normally have purchased Interbase, have gone across to Firebird. They don't even advertise a price for Interbase so there can be no comparison.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><div>and what is the official relationship between Embarcadero (Delphi) and the Lazarus/Free Pascal community?</div>
<div> </div><div>I get the impression this is sort of cooperative – are some of the cross compiler stuff and other tools in XE2 born in part out of the Lazarus community (such as parts of Firemonkey and the MacOS compiler)?</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That I'm not so certain of. but I think you are right. Embarcardero do not lose any customers to Lazarus (or minimal) as Delphi 7 developers are still strong in the community. On the other hand people who start out in Lazarus may eventually come over to Delphi, so it's a symbiotic relationship.</div>
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