Are you in a hurry? So do it with the latest production
version: 1.5.2. Test your application over it and see if
any of the new reserved words cause any trouble.
(I am assuming that the DB is using Dialect 3 already)

[Time to final release]
To reach the point of launching the final release of
FB 1.5, the testers took a entire year between the first
alpha to the last Release Candidate to assure the quality
of the version.
Recently, the people organizing the QA activities created the
"Managed Field Test Program" - a attempt to get it ready
faster than 1.5 but assuring the quality with the same (or
even more) sureness than before.
If they manage to reduce the time it will take to half
of the time it took for version 1.5 it means 6 months.
So my *WILDEST GUESS* at it is: I won't hope to see a
v2 final release before the end of Octuber...

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:30:23 -0000, sharkboy_nz wrote:

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>Hi All,
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>My company develops and markets a Delphi application, which currently
>uses IB6 at the back end.
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>We've made the decision to jump (step) from IB6 to Firebird because of
>the age of IB6, assorted platform issues with it and because of the
>lightweight security.
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>However the potentially short turnaround between Firebird V2 and V3
>has created an issue for us.
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>In short, we don't want to commit to V2, and then find that it's
>orphaned by V3. At the same time we aren't that comfortable about
>committing to V3 and running the risk that the release date slips so
>much that it's no longer useful for our project.
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>Understand that we have 4000 remote installations of IB6 to convert,
>so the cost of preparing an installation routine and deploying is
>significant.
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>There's also the issue of having to deal with concurrency issues
>between IB6 and Firebird. (Mitigated in V3.0 I know, but when?)
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>At the moment we are tending towards committing to V2 now, and
>assessing V3 in Q3 05.
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>Do you think this is this a practical approach?
>What will become of V2.0 if V3.0 is an early success?
>How can I obtain some reassurance that recommending Firebird V2 won't
>affect my future "employability"?
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> TIA
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>Mark.
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