> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Rick Gigger wrote:
>
> > > "Rick Gigger" <rick@alpinenetworking.com> writes:
> > > > Does anyone have a link to such a comparison? Also can anyone
elaborate
> > on
> > > > the features that postgres has that firebird lacks?
> > >
> > > AFAICT, the main thing that Firebird lacks is a viable open-source
> > > development community :-(. It's a nice bit of software, and I'd be
> > > happy to see it doing better, but it seems like they just have not
been
> > > able to gather critical mass around it. So in any comparison you need
> > > to factor in the likelihood that Postgres will be improving at a much
> > > greater rate than Firebird.
> >
> > Last night after posting this I asked myself. Could I get the same kind
of
> > support (basically an answer to any question within 24 hours from one of
the
> > actual postgres developers) with firebird that I can get here? I doubt
it.
>
> But it's just a theory until you test it. I'm willing to bet you'd get
> decent support on the simple stuff. But it's few projects that have the
> kind of developer support postgresql gets.
Yes, I didn't mean to make a statement about firebird support (which I know
nothing about) but rather I was just trying to comment on and show
appreciation for the amazing support that I get here.
rg
