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Paul wrote:

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> "Bill Todd" <no@no.com> wrote:
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> > How many users do SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and MySQL each have? 
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> Loads. Not the point though. I think Loren Szendre put it best when he
> said that IB was good enough for ~ 90% of apps - if you want higher
> levels of whatever, go for Oracle (sorry if I've misquoted).

I am completely lost here. The subject of InterBase vs. other databases
was never mentioned. The question was whether CodeGear would or should
make the IBX components compatible with Firebird or provide a Firebird
driver for dbExpress. My  point was that there are many many many more
Delphi developers working with Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and MySQL than
there are Delphi developers who are working with Firebird. Therefore,
it is much more important to satisify the much larger group of
developers than it is to satisfy the small group using Firebird. If
they get to the point where they can satisfy both then great but if
they have to make a choice then they should satisfy the group of
developers that generates the most revenue.

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> > In terms of relative benefit to CodeGear providing drivers for
> > Firebird ranks with providing drivers for Pervasive and PostgreSQL.
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> IMHO, the reason why Delphi has failed to make it to the big time is
> because of the BDE. Borland should have supported native component

I strongly disagree but I am not going to spend time debating the
point. There are two philosophies you can follow for database
connectivity. One is to provide separate components for each database.
The second is to provide an architecture that  makes it easy to change
the database you are connecting to without having to change your app.
In defense of Borland taking the latter approach I will only point out
that Microsoft started out with the first approach in ADO.NET 1.0 and
1.1 and immediately abandoned that approach for the second philosophy
in ADO.NET
2.0 due to vociferous complaints from their large customers.
 
> sets for Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, Sybase, Informix and Interbase (and
> possibly Ingres and SAP) from the get go.

Not even Microsoft, which has essentially infinite resources, provides
drivers for Sybase, Informix, InterBase, Ingres, SAP, Firebird,
PostgreSQL and MySQL.

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Bill Todd (TeamB)