Notice no Paradox, MS-SQL etc support - also you need Client Datasets to do
the local buffering etc. It will be interesting to see how "bare metal" it
all is.
Max
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carl Reynolds
Sent: Tuesday, 4 July 2000 15:17
To: Multiple recipients of list database
Subject: [DUG-DB]: BDE RIP
From
http://www.delphidevelopernewsletter.com/dd/DDMag.nsf/WebIndexByIssue/B8FC16
D8103A3760852568F600559A83?opendocument
(talking about dbCLX for Linux)
"The combination of dbCLX and dbDirect replaces the BDE (Borland Database
Engine), which will not be available for Linux. The BDE is heavy with lots
of DLLs and difficult to install, but the new dbDirect will be lightweight."
"Since the new dbDirect technology allows for a much simpler and faster path
to remote databases, we should expect a very noticeable performance increase
when using dbCLX and dbDirect over the BDE."
"The new dbDirect is a cross-platform database driver API. It's the
successor to the SQL-Links interface that was used by the BDE to connect to
SQL database servers. The old SQL-Link drivers are being rewritten into
dbDirect drivers. There will be support for Interbase, MySQL (an important
Linux database server), and other major SQL database servers. Since dbDirect
is designed to be cross-platform, it will migrate into Delphi 6."
Cheers,
Carl
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