Andre Heider wrote:

> Lester Caine wrote:
>
>>Why bother, PHP has a native Firebird interface, not need for another
>>interface layer ;) And it works transparently between all versions of
>>Linux and Windows.
>>
> i didn't mean to start a against-php thread here, php serves it purpose. and a
> big advantage is that so many host this webserver extension.
>
> the net-provider is native, no extra libs needed, it just implements the ado.net
> interface.

net-provider driver is native in PHP, but you then need the Firebird
.net interface to talk to Firebird, while the ibase driver talks direct
to Firebird without needing any other interface ;)

> i just wanted to point out that asp.net applications can be developed
> efficiently via rad gui's like delphi/vs.net.
>
> and that also counts for non-webdriven apps. multiplatform and a powerfull
> framework.

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