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To: "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.2.4RC1 Released
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre)

Hi Lester,

On 8/4/07, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Pierre wrote:
> > And what do you suggest to improve this situation? One of my
> > suggestions is to have more DB developers (as in DB internals, if I
> > can say so :) involved. Oracle and IBM (to name the largest and most
> > active) understood that and actively participate.
>
> And IBM have a commercial interest in making it easy for them to sell
> licenses, so they support EVERY well used development platform ;) Since a
> large percentage of their server users were probably running free copies of
> PHP anyway, they saw a support revenue stream?

Not only that, they also saw customers (no fact to confirm that but
that's obvious) moving away to other DBs because PHP support (naitve,
community, etc.) is better.

>  > I'm not saying that
> > you do nothing, but I'm not sure that complaining about the bad state
> > of pdo_firebird is really helpful.
>
> See the other post. I am not 'complaining' about the fact that no one is
> willing to spend unpaid time on pdo_firebird, just trying to explain WHY. If
> the Firebird Foundation had the deep pockets of IBM, Oracle, MySQL etc. then
> we would actually PAY someone to do it, but for now it has to have a reason to
> be worked on and no one has a reason :(
>
> THAT is why the damage to the php_interbase driver was such a problem!

I understood that but that does not make pdo support less critical for
firebird's future with PHP. And that's why I disagree with "no reason
to improve it".

--Pierre