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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:17:23 -0800, Ben Matterson
<bmatterson@borland.com> wrote:

>Binary files from Borland are required to go though a fair amount of
>review before being posted. As a business, why would Borland invest
>that kind of time and effort in something that would 1) provide no
>return on that investment and 2) take away revenue from the certified
>version?

Ben,

As you know binary files are the result of the source code. What you
saying is that you put the source code on the internet without
testing? 

As a business it is normal to make money with good products. (some can
even make money with bad products! No naMeS:=) But i don't understand
why you open sourced interbase in the first place. What was it's goal?
I thought (correct me) that borland wanted interbase a widely used
product so they could sell support.  

I think the difference in money between a version of interbase that
works great but open source that cost nothing and a certified version
is to big. How can i sell a certified version to my customers for
$1200? Till now they get a free version that works great. And if i let
my customers simply let them choose what will the choose? I think the
free version because they don't see what they get for $1200.

And what if application "A" uses a open source version of interbase
and program "B" uses the certified version. And application "B" checks
if the certified version is installed. Installed on the same computer.
I think that will not work because of version mismatch.

In the BDE years it was simple. Just install the latest version and al
programms which uses the bde should work. I bring this up because our
company had a probleem with a bank who had an application working
under interbase 5.6 (certified) Our program uses 6.01 OS. The bank
applications won't work anymore. The bank don't want to support OS
versions of interbase. (till now it was not possible to install a
certified version of 6.01) The only thing we could advise our customer
was to switch bank! (he did!)

So what is your solution to this versioning problem?
Erwin van den Bosch.