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<TITLE>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER>发信人:&nbsp;dainus&nbsp;(飞人),&nbsp;信区:&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR>标&nbsp;&nbsp;题:&nbsp;Doc&nbsp;Searls&nbsp;interviews&nbsp;Inprise&nbsp;CEO&nbsp;Dale&nbsp;Fuller&nbsp;<BR>发信站:&nbsp;BBS&nbsp;水木清华站&nbsp;(Mon&nbsp;Jan&nbsp;10&nbsp;09:32:23&nbsp;2000)&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR>Home&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;Articles&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;Conversations&nbsp;#10&nbsp;<BR>Tuesday,&nbsp;January&nbsp;4,&nbsp;2000&nbsp;|&nbsp;Last&nbsp;Updated&nbsp;4:00pm&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CONVERSATIONS&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;First&nbsp;Major&nbsp;Open&nbsp;Source&nbsp;Database&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by&nbsp;Doc&nbsp;Searls&nbsp;&lt;<A HREF="mailto:doc@ssc.com>">doc@ssc.com></A>&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4-Jan-2000&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls&nbsp;interviews&nbsp;Inprise&nbsp;President&nbsp;and&nbsp;CEO&nbsp;Dale&nbsp;Fuller.&nbsp;<BR>Go&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Inprise&nbsp;(aka&nbsp;the&nbsp;Inprise&nbsp;Borland)&nbsp;Web&nbsp;site.&nbsp;There&nbsp;you&nbsp;will&nbsp;witness&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;two&nbsp;highly&nbsp;significant&nbsp;developments:&nbsp;1)&nbsp;the&nbsp;<BR>Corel-like&nbsp;linuxification&nbsp;of&nbsp;yet&nbsp;another&nbsp;leading&nbsp;PC&nbsp;software&nbsp;company;&nbsp;and&nbsp;2)&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;news&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;company&nbsp;has&nbsp;open-sourced&nbsp;<BR>InterBase&nbsp;6,&nbsp;the&nbsp;latest&nbsp;version&nbsp;of&nbsp;its&nbsp;cross-platform&nbsp;relational&nbsp;database.&nbsp;T&nbsp;<BR>he&nbsp;product&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;in&nbsp;all&nbsp;its&nbsp;versions,&nbsp;<BR>including&nbsp;Linux,&nbsp;Windows&nbsp;NT&nbsp;and&nbsp;Solaris.&nbsp;<BR>InterBase&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;first-rank&nbsp;relational&nbsp;database&nbsp;with&nbsp;customers&nbsp;that&nbsp;include&nbsp;Mo&nbsp;<BR>torola,&nbsp;Nokia,&nbsp;MCI,&nbsp;Northern&nbsp;Telecom,&nbsp;Bear&nbsp;<BR>Stearns,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Money&nbsp;Store,&nbsp;the&nbsp;US&nbsp;Army,&nbsp;NASA,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Philadelphia&nbsp;Stock&nbsp;Exchange&nbsp;<BR>,&nbsp;First&nbsp;National&nbsp;Bank&nbsp;of&nbsp;Chicago&nbsp;and&nbsp;<BR>Boeing.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;hard&nbsp;to&nbsp;find&nbsp;an&nbsp;unkind&nbsp;word&nbsp;about&nbsp;this&nbsp;product,&nbsp;which&nbsp;competes&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR>with&nbsp;Sybase&nbsp;and&nbsp;Microsoft&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;Server,&nbsp;among&nbsp;<BR>other&nbsp;big-time&nbsp;database&nbsp;applications.&nbsp;So&nbsp;opening&nbsp;the&nbsp;source&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;highly&nbsp;ausp&nbsp;<BR>icious&nbsp;move.&nbsp;<BR>Linux&nbsp;Journal&nbsp;senior&nbsp;editor&nbsp;Doc&nbsp;Searls&nbsp;talked&nbsp;about&nbsp;the&nbsp;move&nbsp;with&nbsp;Dale&nbsp;Fulle&nbsp;<BR>r,&nbsp;Inprise&nbsp;President&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;CEO.&nbsp;Fuller&nbsp;came&nbsp;to&nbsp;<BR>Inprise&nbsp;less&nbsp;than&nbsp;a&nbsp;year&nbsp;ago&nbsp;to&nbsp;turn&nbsp;around&nbsp;what&nbsp;was&nbsp;once&nbsp;the&nbsp;premier&nbsp;franch&nbsp;<BR>ise&nbsp;in&nbsp;software&nbsp;development&nbsp;tools&nbsp;-&nbsp;and&nbsp;in&nbsp;many&nbsp;<BR>ways&nbsp;still&nbsp;is.&nbsp;What&nbsp;followed&nbsp;has&nbsp;been&nbsp;a&nbsp;steady&nbsp;corporate&nbsp;drift&nbsp;toward&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR>and&nbsp;the&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;community,&nbsp;which&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;natural&nbsp;<BR>constituency&nbsp;for&nbsp;Delphi&nbsp;and&nbsp;other&nbsp;popular&nbsp;Inprise&nbsp;Borland&nbsp;tools.&nbsp;<BR>With&nbsp;this&nbsp;announcement,&nbsp;the&nbsp;company&nbsp;seems&nbsp;to&nbsp;have&nbsp;made&nbsp;a&nbsp;millennial&nbsp;shift&nbsp;in&nbsp;<BR>to&nbsp;what&nbsp;might&nbsp;become&nbsp;a&nbsp;full-fledged&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;<BR>company&nbsp;(or&nbsp;at&nbsp;least&nbsp;as&nbsp;full-fledged&nbsp;as&nbsp;one&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;when,&nbsp;like&nbsp;Corel,&nbsp;it&nbsp;stil&nbsp;<BR>l&nbsp;sells&nbsp;goods&nbsp;and&nbsp;services&nbsp;for&nbsp;other&nbsp;platforms).&nbsp;It&nbsp;also&nbsp;<BR>gives&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;community&nbsp;a&nbsp;very&nbsp;serious&nbsp;tools&nbsp;for&nbsp;migrating&nbsp;corporate&nbsp;da&nbsp;<BR>tabases&nbsp;off&nbsp;other&nbsp;platforms&nbsp;and&nbsp;onto&nbsp;Linux,&nbsp;among&nbsp;<BR>other&nbsp;significant&nbsp;things.&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;I&nbsp;recently&nbsp;heard&nbsp;that&nbsp;you&nbsp;have&nbsp;some&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;credentials&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;ow&nbsp;<BR>n.&nbsp;<BR>Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Back&nbsp;in&nbsp;1996&nbsp;at&nbsp;WhoWhere,&nbsp;I&nbsp;developed&nbsp;the&nbsp;single&nbsp;largest&nbsp;Web&nbsp;si&nbsp;<BR>te&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;world&nbsp;running&nbsp;on&nbsp;Linux:&nbsp;<BR>Angelfire.com.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;still&nbsp;running&nbsp;on&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;and&nbsp;is&nbsp;one&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;most&nbsp;popular&nbsp;si&nbsp;<BR>tes&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;Web.&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;So&nbsp;why&nbsp;did&nbsp;you&nbsp;go&nbsp;with&nbsp;Linux?&nbsp;<BR>Dale&nbsp;Fuller:When&nbsp;we&nbsp;did&nbsp;Mail&nbsp;City--an&nbsp;earlier&nbsp;site--we&nbsp;did&nbsp;it&nbsp;entirely&nbsp;in&nbsp;So&nbsp;<BR>laris.&nbsp;It&nbsp;was&nbsp;roughly&nbsp;equal&nbsp;in&nbsp;size&nbsp;to&nbsp;Angelfire,&nbsp;but&nbsp;<BR>Angelfire&nbsp;cost&nbsp;one&nbsp;tenth&nbsp;as&nbsp;much&nbsp;because&nbsp;we&nbsp;built&nbsp;it&nbsp;on&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;rather&nbsp;than&nbsp;So&nbsp;<BR>laris.&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;Today&nbsp;let's&nbsp;talk&nbsp;about&nbsp;what's&nbsp;going&nbsp;on&nbsp;with&nbsp;InterBase.&nbsp;Why&nbsp;did&nbsp;y&nbsp;<BR>ou&nbsp;go&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;with&nbsp;it?&nbsp;<BR>Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Until&nbsp;now,&nbsp;InterBase&nbsp;hasn't&nbsp;been&nbsp;a&nbsp;core&nbsp;asset&nbsp;at&nbsp;Inprise--at&nbsp;le&nbsp;<BR>ast&nbsp;as&nbsp;a&nbsp;revenue&nbsp;source.&nbsp;In&nbsp;that&nbsp;area&nbsp;it's&nbsp;been&nbsp;small.&nbsp;<BR>But&nbsp;it&nbsp;has&nbsp;huge&nbsp;value&nbsp;in&nbsp;so&nbsp;many&nbsp;other&nbsp;ways.&nbsp;This&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;world&nbsp;class,&nbsp;bulletpr&nbsp;<BR>oof,&nbsp;fully-tested&nbsp;application&nbsp;that&nbsp;just&nbsp;about&nbsp;everyone&nbsp;<BR>needs.&nbsp;So&nbsp;to&nbsp;gain&nbsp;momentum&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;marketplace&nbsp;we&nbsp;decided&nbsp;to&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;the&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR>product.&nbsp;Open&nbsp;source&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;word&nbsp;of&nbsp;mouth&nbsp;<BR>market,&nbsp;and&nbsp;that's&nbsp;what&nbsp;InterBase&nbsp;needs.&nbsp;And&nbsp;InterBase&nbsp;is&nbsp;what&nbsp;the&nbsp;open&nbsp;sour&nbsp;<BR>ce&nbsp;development&nbsp;community&nbsp;needs,&nbsp;too,&nbsp;because&nbsp;<BR>InterBase&nbsp;not&nbsp;only&nbsp;fills&nbsp;a&nbsp;huge&nbsp;hole&nbsp;for&nbsp;enterprises,&nbsp;but&nbsp;gives&nbsp;them&nbsp;a&nbsp;way&nbsp;t&nbsp;<BR>o&nbsp;migrate&nbsp;in&nbsp;a&nbsp;serious&nbsp;way&nbsp;from&nbsp;one&nbsp;platform&nbsp;to&nbsp;<BR>another&nbsp;-&nbsp;especially&nbsp;to&nbsp;Linux.&nbsp;There&nbsp;is&nbsp;an&nbsp;explosion&nbsp;of&nbsp;demand&nbsp;for&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;and&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;we&nbsp;can&nbsp;serve&nbsp;that&nbsp;demand&nbsp;by&nbsp;providing&nbsp;a&nbsp;free&nbsp;and&nbsp;<BR>open&nbsp;database&nbsp;product&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;already&nbsp;proven&nbsp;and&nbsp;tested&nbsp;over&nbsp;the&nbsp;last&nbsp;fiftee&nbsp;<BR>n&nbsp;years.&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;How&nbsp;big&nbsp;do&nbsp;you&nbsp;expect&nbsp;this&nbsp;to&nbsp;be?&nbsp;<BR>Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;We&nbsp;expect&nbsp;it&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;huge.&nbsp;We&nbsp;have&nbsp;a&nbsp;gigantic&nbsp;following&nbsp;today,&nbsp;by&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;pure&nbsp;market&nbsp;share&nbsp;standards.&nbsp;But&nbsp;what&nbsp;you&nbsp;<BR>want&nbsp;with&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;is&nbsp;something&nbsp;that&nbsp;serves&nbsp;the&nbsp;whole&nbsp;community,&nbsp;not&nbsp;just&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;a&nbsp;nice&nbsp;piece&nbsp;of&nbsp;it.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;a&nbsp;different&nbsp;game,&nbsp;and&nbsp;one&nbsp;<BR>to&nbsp;which&nbsp;this&nbsp;is&nbsp;both&nbsp;timely&nbsp;and&nbsp;well-suited.&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;And&nbsp;the&nbsp;prospects&nbsp;were&nbsp;pretty&nbsp;bleak&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;commercial&nbsp;marketplac&nbsp;<BR>e.&nbsp;<BR>Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Exactly.&nbsp;Having&nbsp;a&nbsp;great&nbsp;product&nbsp;isn't&nbsp;enough.&nbsp;You&nbsp;need&nbsp;to&nbsp;spend&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;big&nbsp;marketing&nbsp;dollars&nbsp;just&nbsp;to&nbsp;begin&nbsp;driving&nbsp;<BR>awareness.&nbsp;We&nbsp;don't&nbsp;have&nbsp;that&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;money,&nbsp;and&nbsp;we're&nbsp;not&nbsp;interested&nbsp;in&nbsp;pla&nbsp;<BR>ying&nbsp;that&nbsp;game&nbsp;any&nbsp;more.&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;Especially&nbsp;since&nbsp;word&nbsp;of&nbsp;mouth&nbsp;is&nbsp;free.&nbsp;<BR>Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Exactly.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;market&nbsp;is&nbsp;still&nbsp;young,&nbsp;and&nbsp;our&nbsp;timing&nbsp;is&nbsp;sti&nbsp;<BR>ll&nbsp;early,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;mechanisms&nbsp;for&nbsp;growth&nbsp;are&nbsp;extremely&nbsp;<BR>powerful.&nbsp;There&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;huge&nbsp;need&nbsp;for&nbsp;what&nbsp;InterBase&nbsp;has&nbsp;already&nbsp;been&nbsp;doing&nbsp;for&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;a&nbsp;long&nbsp;time,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;word&nbsp;of&nbsp;mouth&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;open&nbsp;<BR>source&nbsp;development&nbsp;community&nbsp;should&nbsp;be&nbsp;very&nbsp;strong,&nbsp;very&nbsp;fast.&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;And&nbsp;it&nbsp;will&nbsp;help&nbsp;pull&nbsp;through&nbsp;lots&nbsp;of&nbsp;other&nbsp;products.&nbsp;<BR>Dale&nbsp;Fuller:Yes.&nbsp;That&nbsp;includes&nbsp;the&nbsp;Delphi&nbsp;product&nbsp;for&nbsp;Linux,&nbsp;the&nbsp;J&nbsp;Builder&nbsp;p&nbsp;<BR>roducts&nbsp;for&nbsp;Linux.&nbsp;These&nbsp;will&nbsp;all&nbsp;be&nbsp;optimized&nbsp;to&nbsp;<BR>work&nbsp;very&nbsp;tightly&nbsp;with&nbsp;InterBase.&nbsp;<BR>Doc&nbsp;Searls:What&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;license&nbsp;will&nbsp;you&nbsp;use?&nbsp;GPL?&nbsp;BSD?&nbsp;Mozilla?&nbsp;Something&nbsp;d&nbsp;<BR>ifferent?&nbsp;<BR>Dale&nbsp;Fuller:We&nbsp;don't&nbsp;have&nbsp;a&nbsp;decision&nbsp;on&nbsp;that&nbsp;yet.&nbsp;But&nbsp;we&nbsp;do&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;do&nbsp;right&nbsp;<BR>
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