Because it doesn't pander to everyone's favourite foible, and it's been
around a long time - it's managed to hose everyone at some stage.
Thinks: ... maybe that's why MS keep changing the name of their
technologies - so we can keep thinking, and they can keep telling us, that
the old stuff was carp and the new stuff (MS.NET anyone) will solve all our
problems.
ie: I agree Tony!! (but I still like the idea of a lean SQL layer. btw
that's the engine they announced with the first Kylix info - dbCLX is the
cross-platform data-aware components not the server access layer).
Max
> > ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
> >
> > I thought it was bad enough that Microsoft had 15 squillion
> > methods to talk
> > to databases. Now we have another one to look at!
>
> No, you _had_ the bde, you now have dbCLX. Except I'd imagine the BDE
would
> still be there for legacy reasons, just not in Kylix.
Why is it folk speak of BDE in such a derogatory fashion? There are many who
would say it has been the most generic, Robust, and long lifed
(isuccessfull) database connectivity layer ever.
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