Article View: borland.public.interbase.opensource
Article #54Re: Which FreeWare/OpenSource Interbase is the best?
From: Loren Szendre
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:57
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:57
24 lines
2298 bytes
2298 bytes
Jack, As you know, IB and FB have parted ways. With the release of FB 2.0, it would be unwise to use IBX to access FB 2.0, even though I imagine there are folks out there trying it. I don't know about any papers comparing the two, but I can tell you that if you need SMP support, Embedded User Authentication, Advanced Logging capabilities (as well as some other features to enable using IB in larger Enterprise environments) -- then you should use IB over FB. FB 2.0 is like the old open source version of IB on steroids -- lots of bugfixes, gobs of new features and more built-in functions, and lots of limitations removed. But it still can't handle SMP and doesn't have EUA, and a few other features. Bottom line -- both have features and capabilities that the other doesn't have. I can't tell you which is better for you. You have to decide where your pricepoint is, and what features are important to your business. I can tell you that long-term the cost difference will be inconsequential. So choose the one that fits your needs the best -- in the long run that will be the least expensive choice. Loren
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<456d1ac6$1@newsgroups.borland.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mailReferences:
<456abc46@newsgroups.borland.com> <456b4f58$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <456bbcc0$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <456bc83a$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <456d02d7$1@newsgroups.borland.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 106772,bfde2af1f896c514 X-Google-Attributes: gid106772,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:57:28 -0800 From: Loren Szendre <zorenlendry@yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: borland.public.interbase.opensource Subject: Re: Which FreeWare/OpenSource Interbase is the best? References: <456abc46@newsgroups.borland.com> <456b4f58$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <456bbcc0$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <456bc83a$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <456d02d7$1@newsgroups.borland.com> In-Reply-To: <456d02d7$1@newsgroups.borland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.185.105.33 Message-ID: <456d1ac6$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1164778182 64.185.105.33 (28 Nov 2006 21:29:42 -0700) Lines: 24 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail