Re: Inprise InterBase(R) 6.0 Now Free and Open Source

Kaare Rasmussen <kar@webline.dk> wrote: 

> In case you didn't notice:
> 
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000725/ca_inprise_2.html

Yes, and now the story is up on slashdot: 

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00%2F07%2F25%2F1439226&cid=&pid=0&startat=&threshold=-1&mode=nested&commentsort=3&op=Change

So if anyone feels like taking time out to do some
evangelizing, this might be a good moment to say a few words
about Postgresql vs.  "Inprise, The Open Source Database".  

In particular, this guy could use a detailed reply: 

> Interbase
> 
>  (Score:4, Interesting)
>  by jallen02 (:-( .) on Tuesday July 25, @09:06AM PST
>  (User #124384 Info) http://gdev.net/~jallen
>
>  I found myself wondering exactly what Interbase could do
>  for me.  So I dug through their site (not hard to find)
>  and found  this lil gem
>
>  Interbase Product Overview 
>
>  Interbase has some very awesome features. The overview
>  took the tone of a semi marketing type item yet it was
>  infomrative and if you read through some of the garbage
>  its rather clear to see as a programmer/developer what
>  Interbase offers.

>  Some of the features that stuck out in my mind from the
>  over view.
> 
>  -Small memory footprint
>  -Triggers 
>  -Stored Procedures
>  -User Definable Functions with some 'libraries' per say
>      already defined for math and string handling
>  -Alert events 
>
>  EX:A certain item goes below xyz dollars it can send an
>  alert using some sort of constant polling method. I am
>  not sure exactly what this one was.. but basically it
>  looks like whenever changes are done to the table if
>  certain criteria are met it can call up a stored
>  proc/UDF or something. This is a bit more powerful than
>  a trigger or a stored procedure since you do not have to
>  do any speical coding on a insert/update/delete.
>
>  Some other interesting things... There was a *LOAD* of
>  case studies on the interbase site.
>
>  Case Studies 
> 
>  I looked at some of these and they were real industry
>  proven case studies IMO. 
> 
>  Its Free.. and it has a good reputation 
> 
>  You can buy support for it 
> 
>  It appears to be VERY ANSI Compliant and supports all the
>  trappings of MS SQL Server.
> 
>  It also claimed to be self optimizing... anyways hope this
>  provided a little information.