> >Nope, the code has been bought back inhouse for IB6.x and beyond. What
> >was released as free and opensource is still that way - future stuff
> >may not be.
>
> So they made IB6 free, got a bunch of people using it, then decided
> that it could turn a profit again? That's almost funny :>
Well, yes and no. They made it free, thinking it wasn't making any money.
Then, _after the fact_, they asked around, and found it was a substantial
product for some countries. That didn't go down well :)
I dont think there are lots of people using it that didn't before - they are
just not having to pay for it (assuming they moved from 5.6 in the first
place, and AFAIK, not a hell of a lot did).
> Firebird might be worth looking into if you don't want to shell out
> bucks on licensing, but I guess if you want to maintain future
> compatibility you'll have to pay for IB>6.
Exactly. And I _know_ there are new features planed for IB6.5/7/etc*, but
I'm not sure what the FB lot are doing. Hell, I even walked past the IB team
when I was in Scotts Valley (the training room was almost next door to them
:) )
*obviously, I can neither confirm, nor deny, their existance, or if it will
happen etc etc etc.
>
> >Firebird <> IB - it might have at v6.0, but not beyond that - the code
> >forked almost immediatly.
>
> Which was expected by a lot of people. Firebird is based on the
> opensource IB6, but divergent from it. Wonder if the various IB6 ODBC
> drivers and component sets out there will support it?
Firebird? well, IBO will, as Jason Warton seams to "not like" Borland now,
after the IB6 OS "row", so there's one. And IBX is pretty much OpenSource,
so unless it diverges a LOT, I'd guess that both will support both versions.
Lots of bad blood and petty arguments there tho - its not pretty.
Nic.
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