oh, well thats interesting....good luck to them I say !
I think that IB has always had the idea with lic.s personally.
I.e. if you wnat MSSQL, you have to buy the product, and you get 5 free
lics.
In most cases for us, we only need 1-2 lics, and its less than $500 !!
I think form memory MSSQL is $1300 or there abouts.
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Nic Wise
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:43 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...
We are - for 5.6, which is not free. Dale (Inprise CEO) decided that IB was
never going to compete head to head with MSSQL, Oracle etc, most likely 'cos
Inprise does not have enough $'s to put into marketing it - so they
opensourced it and spun it off as a seperate company, with "no" ties to
Inprise.
technical reality is, IB on linux is an excellent solution for 90% of
systems in NZ (Telecoms core system and such not withstanding), as a lot of
people here know.
They are just going thru the final stages of splitting Interbase the
division into Interbase Inc. Or something like that.
N
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main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Jerermy Coulter
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2000 13:30
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...
>
>
> why are they not selling lic.s for it anymore ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Nic Wise
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:24 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...
>
>
> nope - free w/o source in beta, free with source when its
> released, which is
> supposed to be REALLY soon.
>
> N
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> Nic Wise - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Inprise/Borland New Zealand
> main line: 09.360.0231 / ddi: 09.360.6713 / cell: 021.676.418
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Jerermy Coulter
> > Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2000 12:03
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...
> >
> >
> > only while its in beta tho...isn't it ?
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Simon Mahony
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:00 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...
> >
> >
> > Jeremy,
> >
> > If you get IB 6 you won't need to worry about the licensing issue. It's
> > free.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2000 11:09
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > > Subject: [DUG]: Suggestions or comments...
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all.
> > > We have a situation here where we have an NT service and a normal DB
> > > Application that both use Interbase.
> > > The problem we have is that the NT Service chews up an IB
> lic. when it
> > is
> > > in use...i.e. all the time.
> > > this then means we would have to get an extra client lic.
> which is not
> > > really all that great for the client, since its not really
> > their problem,
> > > and we dont want to carry the cost of an IB LIC every time we sell our
> > > product.
> > >
> > > SO, the solution as I see it is this, that we develop an app.
> > that acts
> > as
> > > a data-broker.
> > > This would obviously cause SOME issues for us, but would solve the
> > problem
> > > as I see it.
> > >
> > > The question I am wanting an answer to is, we dont have Midas which
> > would
> > > be the way to go I think, SO I have been thinking along the
> > lines of using
> > a
> > > DCOM server to do the data-brokerage for the NT service and the DB
> > > application.
> > > This would be fine for the NT service, but it causes a number
> > of issues
> > > for the DB Application, i.e. we use tables and querys etc.
> > > Would we best to buy Midas.....or rather we need to get
> another delphi
> > > anyway so we sould look at getting the version of delphi that
> has Midas.
> > >
> > > Can anyone comment on the above ?
> > > Am I going down the wrong path ?
> > > Will midas help us with the problem of needing to use
> tables datasets
> > and
> > > storedproc componetns etc. ??
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Jeremy Coulter (Software Development Team Leader)
> > > Triton Commercial Systems
> > > 6A Burdale Street
> > > Riccarton
> > > Christchurch
> > > ( +64 3 3483973 Fax +64 3 3431613
> > > http://www.tritoncomsys.com
> > >
> > >
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