With all the work done to Firebird, will it maintain Interbase compatibility or will we have to use a "Firebird" set of data components eventually ?
----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Heinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:11 PM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Win 98 SE > Allan wrote: > > > Yes I was aware that the two where on separate development paths, just > > wasn't aware there was some animosity between the two. If that's what you > > are saying. > > Originally, yes - some of the Firebird people were pretty peeved with > Borland (to put it mildly :-). But nowadays, most of them have accepted 'how > things are' and they're too busy improving Firebird to worry about it much > any more. > > The Interbase engineering team is apparently forbidden from any contact with > the Firebird people, but seeing as Borland now sees Firebird as a competitor > essentially, that is kind of inevitable. > > Firebird is really improving in leaps and bounds. They have some very > talented (and prolific!) developers involved. The Interbase codebase had > languished over the years and much neeeded (but hard to justify to > management :-) refactoring and reengineering work had piled up. > > Firebird 2 is being reengineered in C++ with full OO design and exception > handing. This will finally allow some pervasive multi-threading improvements > which should really improve Firebird scalability on SMP machines. > > TTFN, > Paul. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
