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Loren,

> 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.

The Classic architecture handles SMP just fine. Embedded User 
Authentication isn't available. Yet. I don't want to get into details 
what's new in Firebird 2.0, because the Release notes document is > 150 
pages long. ;-)

> Bottom line -- both have features and capabilities that the other 
> doesn't have.

Right. It's a matter of personal requirements. One needs to write them 
down, evaluate, etc.





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