We'l just have to wait and see eh.
I certainly hope D6 has a BDE page though... It will be very annoying to
have to maintain D5 for customer maintenance. How about Lunch Tuesday?
12:30? Give me a call.
T
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From: Max Renshaw-Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 9:38 AM
Subject: RE: [DUG-DB]: BDE RIP
> 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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