The BDE haters out
there should be interested in this (from the latest Kylix news on
community.borland.com). Looks like Corel Office (ie Paradox) will use wine for
BDE?
Database connectivity will obviously be a key to Kylix’s success. So how are you going to manage? No ADO, obviously… Surely not a port of the BDE?
ADO is not available under Linux and we are not porting BDE. We are working on a portable database access layer that will be talking about more in the near future. The new access layer will be much thinner than BDE and we will be relying on the client dataset support much more heavily. If you are using the client dataset, or cached-updates, today, your database code will port quite easily. If your applications are using live-updates, you will need to rework them for use under Linux. We plan on making this new layer available under both Linux and Windows.
