If you wish to support IB, in the Delphi arena, you have various options
available to you.
You can contact Jason Wharton and see if he needs any help with any parts of his
code base.
You can contact Patrick Okeffe and ask him if there are any module extensions
needed for his marathon product.....

On your own, get a function listing from a spreadsheet manual and start writing
delphi UDF's so that Interbase can boast the same millions of functions that the
other DBMS's have - and it will stop others from bloating the code when the
feature is already available as a UDF.

We need to make sure the purity of the base code does not get polluted, best way
of doing this is to head off such 'helpful' people by beating them to it, only,
not by touching the IB code base.

best regards

Dalton

Hotel Concepts wrote:

> From: "Hotel Concepts" <Jacco@...>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am Jacco Kulman, senior programmer of Property Managements Systems for the
> Hospitality Industry. Our company relies heavily on Interbase technology.
> Only recently we have "ported" the database and the application to function
> under MSSQL but the performance is very VERY slow...
>
> The news that Inprise/Borland stops research and developement of Interbase
> was a great shock to us. We are a VAR of Inprise Corp and invested a lot of
> money in Interbase. I am not very confident that "Open Sourcing" Interbase
> will be very successfull, because of all the different perspectives and
> goals there can be in improving/altering Interbase.
>
> When we received the news we immediately started looked for another database
> system, and we are currently evaluating SyBase. Unless the Open Sourcing of
> Interbase proves to be a success we can't sell our customers a "dead" DBMS.
>
> Nevertheless I am willing to join the effort to try and keep Interbase
> alive. I am a pretty good programmer (Delphi) and have got 24*7 - 100 hours
> to invest. The things I could help best with is probably testing and
> writing/adjusting of the tools that come with IB using Delphi. (I guess IB
> is written in C++ which I can read/interpret but producing code is something
> else).
>
> Regards Jacco
>
> P.S: What will all this mean for the BDE and IB SQL Links ??
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