Firebird for ISV: Business Advantages (in English), by Dmitry Kuzmenko, IBSurgeon

Firebird for ISVs: Business Advantages Dmitry Kuzmenko, IBSurgeon Learn how to turn ISV challenges into opportunities with true open-source Firebird database engine www.ibsurgeon.com

Why Firebird?
The open source Firebird relational database management system performs excellently and scales impressively, from an embedded, single-user model to enterprise-wide deployments with multiple 500+Gb databases running with hundreds of simultaneous clients.
The mix of high performance , small footprint , supreme scalability , silent and simple installation and 100% royalty-free deployment make Firebird a highly attractive choice for all types of software developers and independent software vendors.
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Ready for development!
Drivers:
Firebird.NET
JayBird (Java)
UIB, FIBPlus*, IBObjects* (Delphi/C++ Builder)
FreePascal & Lazarus
PHP Firebird
FireRuby
etc
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Business challenges for ISV
Current challenges
Tough economy
Increased competition: MS, SAP, Oracle want SMBs
Operation system diversity: raise of Linux and Mac push Windows
Customers want more for the same $$
Data growth: more data
Let’s turn challenges into opportunities with Firebird!
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Turning challenges into opportunities : Tough economics: lack of $$ and customers
Challenges
Customers cannot afford “before recession” prices software and solutions
At the moment some customers cannot pay at all (or does not want to pay up front)
Opportunities
Hit old market leaders:
Drop your price with free license of database
Start sell your soft as cheap subscription: no up-front payments
Gain market share: create free version of application and boost adoption with free database licenses.
Bonus of the recession : now customers reveal the real value of software and zero price for database looks very attractive. Free is a very good price, indeed. www.ibsurgeon.com

Turning challenges into opportunities: Competition with SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, etc
Challenges
Big vendors of business software is in tough situation too , and now aim to the smaller customers than they used to sell in: they are trying to adopt their “one size fits all” solutions to SMB and niche markets
Opportunities
Firebird is not only free , but also self-managed and almost DBA-free database - this enables price competition not only at license level, it radically decreases TCO
Competing with big vendors give you additional exposure and PR: “ gods do not eat potato ”.
Bonus of the recession : staff and expenses reduction attracts attention to pragmatic solutions, which can be maintained by existing IT department resources. www.ibsurgeon.com

Turning challenges into opportunities: Operation systems diversity
Challenges
Customers has heterogeneous environments : even small office can have a mixture of Linux, Windows and Mac OS X computers and notebooks
Customers want to migrate from Windows and Office to Linux and Open Office to reduce overall IT costs and want to migrate business software too
Customers do not want vendor “lock-in”, they want to have choice and control
Opportunities
Firebird can be deployed at all major platforms with no additional cost. Migration is one-step easy process : just backup and restore
Firebird bundles perfectly with all major cross-platform frameworks: Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET/Mono, Lazarus
Enormous opportunities to gain new customers with cross-platform solutions
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Turning challenges into opportunities : High customers requirements
Challenges
Customers still want high-quality software with rich feature set, delivered in time and for the low price
Customers want to enhance software and IT infrastructure to match the changing needs, but want to keep these expenses low
Opportunities
Now price of custom solutions , based on free tools and free database, can be competitive with big vendors software, and better satisfy needs of niche markets and customers with special and/or high demands
Open source based solutions are much better prepared for changes and enchantments
Bonus of using open-source : “ One size fits all” software from big vendors is hardly adopted for specific needs, and never been 100% adopted for the needs of particular customer, so they are giving up niche markets, due to implied license and patents costs involved. www.ibsurgeon.com

Turning challenges into opportunities : Data growth
Challenge
Data growth across all customer segments: small and medium business, enterprise and web data
Big databases requires very expensive hardware to operate at adequate level
Big databases requires outrageously expensive licenses to run at already expensive hardware
Opportunities
Firebird supports databases up to 32Tb: there are several real-world solutions with 500Gb+ databases. 1Tb database exists.
Eliminate “toy databases” (Oracle Express, SQL Server Express), which have restriction in size (<4Gb)
Small footprint allows to re-allocate customers’ IT budgets from hardware to software
Bonus of using Firebird: Easy and transparent scaling with modest hardware investments to get excellent result. www.ibsurgeon.com

Summary: don’t miss the chance!
Directions of new economy are fully aligned and supported by Firebird:
“ Pay as you go” and avoid up-front payments
Diversity: no more vendor lock-ins
Pay for real values: focus on business, not brand-names
It’s time of enormous opportunities for true open source platforms like Firebird.
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