Artur,

The documentation to my claim can easily be found at the IBO newsgroup, in the dozens of responses from Jason acknowledging that "he is working on ... " (or other such statements).

As for winning a a "reader's choice" award... well I think that speaks for itself.

I was only relating my personal experience with it (bolstered by the newsgroups pleas). I am sure that others are happy with it. I was not.

ed

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On 4/12/2002 at 5:32 PM Artur Anjos wrote:

>Hum... I really doubt that a 'buggy, buggy, buggy' software could achieve
>the Delphi Informant Readers' Choice (Database Connectivity) for the third
>year in succession.... I hate when someone use the word 'bug' in an
>ambigous
>way....
>
>Alfonso:
>
>And this is a Trustware software, so I recommend that you give it a try.
>I'm
>sure your learning curve will be fast if you already use TDataset
>components. you don't need to use the other components if you don't want
>to.
>And support it's 5 stars!
>
>Artur
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kevin Stanton" <Kevin.Stanton@...>
>To: <IBDI@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 5:03 PM
>Subject: RE: [IBDI] About IBX and Firebird
>
>
>> I absolutely recommend IBO.
>> There may be a bit of a learning curve, but well worth it.
>> IBO has come a long ways over the years and I wouldn't think of using
>> anything else.
>> FWIW,
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Ed Malloy [mailto:edm@...]
>> > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:38 AM
>> > To: IBDI@yahoogroups.com
>> > Subject: Re: [IBDI] About IBX and Firebird
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Alfonso,
>> >
>> > IMHO the ease of use & reliability of IBX outweighs any possible
>> > advantages of using Firebird instead of Interbase. My experience
>> > with IBO was not a happy one, buggy, buggy, buggy, with tons of
>> > "features" that I didn't need and continual updates to fix bugs
>> > in the components I did use (gee, sort of sounds like an unnamed
>> > nw US software company, doesn't it!).
>> >
>> > hth
>> >
>> > ed
>> >
>> > ________________________________________
>> >
>> > On 4/12/2002 at 8:29 AM Alfonso Ricaqo wrote:
>> >
>> > >Hello all,
>> > >I've been using IBX since they were released with D5. Before i was
>> > >using FIB and BDE. But now, with Firebird, i'm doubting if continuing
>> > >using them (IBX) or not. My plans are to use only Firebird in all my
>> > >developments (i'm currently using IB 6.0.1 in some of them and
>Firebird
>> > >1.0 in other ones), so i want to know your point of view respect to
>> > >this issue. Could i continue using IBX in my next developments?
>> > >I've seen many ads regarding that IBO and FIBplus are better
>connection
>> > >components, but my applications use only a few thousand records, so i
>> > >don't think i need more power in connection software.
>> > >
>> > >Well, i'll wait for your opinions.
>> > >Thanks in advance.
>> > >
>> > >Best regards,
>> > >Alfonso Ricaqo
>> > >
>>
>
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