I'm going to prefix this with "unless you are Paul" but please have that assumed from here on in :-)
No, I'm not planning on doing any promotion of FB - and this is particularly important. FB and IB are _not_ the same database any longer, they are not only incompatible at the file format layer, they have forked in critical functionality as well. How FB limits the rows coming back is different to IB for example, and there are many more examples, especially at the API layer (admin management, transaction management, SQL functionality, etc) If you go with FB, you have almost blocked yourself off from IB as much as if you had gone with another database. I use IB with my web sites, the thought of having to move to FB would be more work than I would want to have to do. Putting a layer between you and the database is something I am doing now, but if I have to do stored procs, FB stored procs and IB stored procs are becoming sufficiently different to make it an effort. Richard --- Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +64-9-9184573 cell: +64-21-467747 other: MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED], skype: rvowles blog: http://www.usergroup.org.nz/blogs/selectBlog.html?id=39769 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kurt Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:40 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Why InterBase Richard Vowles wrote: > I'm now happy to have this discussion when I wouldn't have bothered > before. InterBase is a core product of DevCo going forward so I need > to know what are its selling points and what aren't. And I intend to > have an InterBase partner programme that rocks. Doesn't seem it'd be too hard too find a market for it - IB is an ideal size/price/performer for the current web-size dbs. (if I were you I'd promote FB too, so's users can buy support contracts for IB when they grow :) Cheers, Kurt. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
