> Unfortunately, I have yet to
> find anything that will link directly to IB on Linux, and I'm a bit stuck
> for ideas. Neither PHP or PERL seems quite ready to talk to IB,

You can talk to Interbase via DBD::Perl -- it's at the 'usual' DBD archives
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/DBD/

PHP apparently supports 'minimal' Interbase support, whatever that means
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog.php3

> I also need to know whether the free IB4 for Linux that I heard Inprise
were
> giving away is still available, and if it is a good idea.

Sure is. http://www.interbase.com/downloads/products.html

(and it's a great idea)

Cheers,
Kerry Sainsbury
Inprise/Borland New Zealand


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