Roberto,

I have CC'd the IB-Support group on this message, since it is the
correct forum for this to be discussed.

Please look in that group for any responses to your question (including
my own).


Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: roberto@... [mailto:roberto@...]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:44 AM
> To: IB-Architect@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IB-Architect] ib6 or firebird ?
>
>
> because i don't are a interbase expert i want to post a question to
> group:
>
> i'm begin to use interbase 6 for a massive project....... now i know
> that the old (and original writers) engineers of IB start a group for
> making the next interbase opensource project called FIREBIRD ..... i
> also know that borland continue the interbase project itself.....
>
> the members count of sourceforge section of borland-interbase source
> tree is of 10 (ten) developers ( i don't know any )....
>
> the members of the new firebird project into sourceforge count 50
> developer, and of these i know harrison, etc, the original writers of
> the engine .....
>
> now ..... what engine to choice ? Interbase 6 borland ? Firebird 1.0
> from ibphoenix (original writers ). And the future ? We can expect 2
> different engines, and 2 different formats ?
>
> Can someone have experience with firebird 1 ?
> Can firebird 1 have solved the main problems of ib6 official ?
> - a best managing of the cache ( the 10.000 pages of limit .... and
> the manager isn't dynamic but static in ib6 )
> - a best support for SMP systems
> - a best support of native NT performance enhancements ( overlapped
> I/O, IOCompletionPorts for working threads, and using
> criticalsections with affinitymask and not the orrible mutex/locking
> obsolete mechanism? )
> I'm very confusing.... maybe my choice is mySQL, i found a good
> direct interface for delphi !
>
> IB6 or Firebird ?
>
> Thank for any response ( sorry for bad english :-).
>
> Cheers.
>
> Roberto.
>
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