Survey Results

Look to the skies for your next lifestyle choice Hmmm | :|

I'm a pilot. Skywriting's cool. I could vote no other way.

From my position, flat out on the beach, it has a chance. If I'm awake.

Those firebird people really have to start getting their product some more recognition, it blows MySQL out of the water and has no goofy licensing problems either.

"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."

I agree John. I've just started to peel the onion on this one and I'm amazed at what it offers. Probably what many consider a drawback though, is it's plain C programmatic client interface, although there is a .Net data provider that I haven't looked at yet.

Chris Meech

I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]

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Nice sig! [Tim Deveaux on Matt Newman's sig with a quote from me]

The .net provider works great.
I've been trying out a number of different DBMS with their .net drivers and the good think is that the .net driver is ultra standard with all of them, in fact I've made a database access layer for my business objects and Oracle was the only goofy one of the bunch and even that one was pretty easy due to the heavily standardized ado.net driver implementations.

I've run a number of tests now and Firebird seems *very* good.
I just got the Firebird book and holy cow is it huge, well worth it if your going with Firebird for anything.

I thought the whole shemozzle was re-written in c++ once it was ported from interbase for version 1.5?

I don't use the direct interfaces on any database products though so it's not my area of expertise, but from a .net provider standpoint it's pretty damn cool.

I expect HUGE things for it in future, they just need to get the word out. There's really nothing that compares.

I normally avoid free / open source software in commercial projects, but we just couldn't find any alternative that matched with such a light footprint so I'm breaking my own rule in this case.

"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."

Does it do clustering for load balancing?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Nope, not as far as I can tell, however it does allow breaking a database out over multiple disks so it offers load balancing at the disk end and it has "shadowing" built in for automatic failover etc.

There's a nice quick fact sheet here:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/guide/FBFactsheet.html[^]

"A preoccupation with the next world pretty clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one."

Noone's working on a CListCtrl? (see additional answer for Q3)

Regards
Thomas

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That's lame Poke tongue | ;-P

What licensing problems? MySQL is free. :P Right - I know... How would anyone in business dare to use free software? Heh.

I forgot to add it Cry | :((

I use those all the time in my applications.

*please* don't get them started! Unsure | :~

Cheers,
Simon

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Option	Votes	%
younger than 18	11	1.52
18 - 24	127	17.59
25 - 29	149	20.64
30 - 34	135	18.70
35 - 39	119	16.48
40 - 44	91	12.60
45 - 54	90	12.47
55 or older	34	4.71
Total	722	100%

Option	Votes	%
High school or before	75	10.39
Diploma or other post-secondary education	109	15.10
University/College degree	433	59.97
Post Graduate / Doctorate	138	19.11
Total	722	100%

Option	Votes	%
Desktop applications	521	72.16
Web Development	404	55.96
Client / Server applications	394	54.57
Mobile Development	106	14.68
Embedded development	90	12.47
Database development	421	58.31
System applications	182	25.21
Games	47	6.51
None	11	1.52
Other	52	7.20
Responses	722
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

Option	Votes	%
over $200,000	19	2.63
$100,000 to $200,000	131	18.14
$75,000 to $99,999	114	15.79
$50,000 to $74,999	146	20.22
$25,000 to $49,999	101	13.99
less than $24,999	87	12.05
decline to answer	155	21.47
Total	722	100%

Option	Votes	%
C / C++ (unmanaged)	361	50.00
C++/CLI	70	9.70
C#	435	60.25
VB.NET	232	32.13
ASP.NET	322	44.60
ASP 3.0	97	13.43
Visual Studio 6	314	43.49
Visual Studio .NET / Visual Studio 2005	533	73.82
Java	118	16.34
Windows	588	81.44
Linux	138	19.11
SQL Server	431	59.70
MySQL	142	19.67
XML (and related)	379	52.49
Vista (Longhorn) technologies (Aero, XAML etc)	12	1.66
Responses	722
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

Option	Votes	%
CEO / President / Owner	65	9.00
Senior Management (CTO, CIO, Director of Technology)	39	5.40
Project Manager	132	18.28
Architect	177	24.52
Senior Developer	339	46.95
Developer	318	44.04
SysAdmin	67	9.28
DBA	89	12.33
QA / Testing / Documentation	92	12.74
Other	83	11.50
Responses	722
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

Option	Votes	%
Just me	70	9.70
2 - 10	141	19.53
11 - 50	122	16.90
51 - 100	69	9.56
101 - 500	117	16.20
501 - 1000	34	4.71
1001 - 5000	62	8.59
5000+	93	12.88
Not applicable	44	6.09
Total	722	100%

Option	Votes	%
over $100,000 per annum	20	2.77
$50,000 - $100,000 per annum	21	2.91
$10,000 - $49,999 per annum	59	8.17
$5,000 - $9,999 per annum	31	4.29
$1,000 - $4,999 per annum	59	8.17
less than $1,000 per annum	44	6.09
Zero. They don't trust me with the plastic	186	25.76
Not applicable	332	45.98
Total	722	100%

Option	Votes	%
Hardware	373	51.66
Operating systems	308	42.66
Database servers	242	33.52
Office software	329	45.57
No - they never listen to me	78	10.80
Not applicable	183	25.35
Responses	722
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

Option	Votes	%
Desktop, notebook, TabletPC	342	47.37
Computer upgrades	404	55.96
Software	488	67.59
Portable devices (PDAs, MP3 players, cool gadgets)	211	29.22
Game consoles	79	10.94
Audio equipment / TV / DVD	179	24.79
PC Peripherals (monitors, printers etc.)	312	43.21
Network hardware (routers, network cards, etc.)	254	35.18
Computer related services (Internet access, support, etc.)	249	34.49
Responses	722
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

Option	Votes	%
Once a week or more	116	16.07
Once a month or more	255	35.32
A few times a year	256	35.46
Rarely	88	12.19
Never	9	1.25
Total	722	100%

Option	Votes	%
Banner advertising	81	11.22
Newsletter ad	161	22.30
Direct email	229	31.72
Magazine ad	123	17.04
Sky writing	64	8.86
Product placement in movies	18	2.49
Snail mail	46	6.37
Total	722	100%

Option	Votes	%
Operating Systems	275	38.09
Database servers	162	22.44
MSDN or Visual Studio .NET	424	58.73
Third party development tools (programming, compilers, editors, etc.)	352	48.75
Business productivity (word processing, editors, accounting, CRM, etc.)	142	19.67
Scientific / mathematical / Financial	99	13.71
Graphical or Multimedia	127	17.59
Games	143	19.81
Freeware or shareware all the way, baby.	325	45.01
Responses	722
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

The Code Project Community Survey 2005 [Edit]