Hi Mark,

We've been re-developing our Delphi 6 apps for a couple of years now,
having moved from BDE / Pardox / dbase and are just about to release.
While we are looking forward to V2 and V3, we are not really worried
about when they arrive... SMP and better language support would be nice,
but for us it's not a huge issue.

I wouldn't be committing to V2 now - it's not released and who knows
when it will be released. 1.5 is great, certainly much much better than
IB6. When V2 comes out, deal with it then. V3 - deal with it after
you've dealt with V2, if you decide to deal with V2 at all!

We will end up deploying thousands of seats in the next 12 months, and I
have no doubt that 1.5 will be able to do the job - from the single user
to our larger networked customers.

Regards,

Peter Lee

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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