Quoting "Donovan J. Edye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> G'Day,
>
> It is time for us to do the next incarnation of our products and as part of
> that we are looking to ditch the BDE (/ ADO). Essentially our operating
> environment is as follows:
>
> - Extremely hostile and remote. ie. Applications are running on machines
> that are very difficult to access either physically or with remote access.
> - Machines are prone to being abused ie. powered down due to power failures
> etc.
> - Machines are used for "real-time" applications such as providing data
> capture for live sporting events
> - DataSets are "smallish" +/- 20 tables with some tables having +/- 5000
> records
> - DB access is multi user with an upper max of +/- 10 concurrent users
>
> At present we have our apps running using Paradox / BDE. Naturally we have
> our fair share of corruptions etc. So we are looking for an alternative
> that
> would satisfy the "Holy Grail"
>
> - Not require the deployment of DLL's for data access (a la BDE)
Why?
You know that most of Windows runs on DLLs, so does ADO. The only way you can
avoid deploying is if the code is all in your app, or if someone else does the
deploying for you.
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