| Subject | Re: [ib-support] Re: Corrupt header problem |
|---|---|
| Author | Woody |
| Post date | 2002-01-03T17:19:40Z |
From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
<<
That "latest" Open Source InterBase binary is more than six months old. It
was (is) the last free binary you will see from Borland. Furthermore,
Borland's InterBase general manager Jon Arthur recently announced that the
Open Edition won't be receiving any of the changes that they put into their
commercial editions. So even if you build your own from source code, it's
going to be the same old thing with perhaps a few bugs fixed that were
already fixed in Firebird long ago. InterBase(R) Open Edition has no
apparent future. Are you prepared to buy commercial licensing? That's what
InterBase(R) is all about. Borland isn't a charitable institution, after
all.
fixes will immediately go into the open edition. It will probably lag one or
two versions behind the commercial version as regards new features, some of
which may requires a core engine change. This is not the last open edition
version, ASFAIK, and has at least been stated that way by members of Borland
on the news groups.
<<
If you are going to rewrite your software with IBX then count on commercial
InterBase(R) in your future. IBX is locked into commercial InterBase.
Alternatively, move to Firebird and do your future development with IB
Objects (which will directly convert your BDE app, a sub-five-minute job) or
FIB-Plus.
However, all that said, the choice to use either IB or FB should be made now
while they are still so similar in operation. No one knows where they will
be 6 months from now or more so it would be easier to convert either way at
present rather than wait. I fear that even Jason could be vastly overworked
in the future trying to keep up with both versions, but to date, he is the
only one doing so efficiently and with apparently less bugs. Let's hope he
continues.
Woody (the Original)
----------------------
Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
George Carlin
<<
That "latest" Open Source InterBase binary is more than six months old. It
was (is) the last free binary you will see from Borland. Furthermore,
Borland's InterBase general manager Jon Arthur recently announced that the
Open Edition won't be receiving any of the changes that they put into their
commercial editions. So even if you build your own from source code, it's
going to be the same old thing with perhaps a few bugs fixed that were
already fixed in Firebird long ago. InterBase(R) Open Edition has no
apparent future. Are you prepared to buy commercial licensing? That's what
InterBase(R) is all about. Borland isn't a charitable institution, after
all.
>>This is not exactly the case with IB. It was always stated that only bug
fixes will immediately go into the open edition. It will probably lag one or
two versions behind the commercial version as regards new features, some of
which may requires a core engine change. This is not the last open edition
version, ASFAIK, and has at least been stated that way by members of Borland
on the news groups.
<<
If you are going to rewrite your software with IBX then count on commercial
InterBase(R) in your future. IBX is locked into commercial InterBase.
Alternatively, move to Firebird and do your future development with IB
Objects (which will directly convert your BDE app, a sub-five-minute job) or
FIB-Plus.
>>Again, IBX is locked into IB, not necessarily into the commercial version.
However, all that said, the choice to use either IB or FB should be made now
while they are still so similar in operation. No one knows where they will
be 6 months from now or more so it would be easier to convert either way at
present rather than wait. I fear that even Jason could be vastly overworked
in the future trying to keep up with both versions, but to date, he is the
only one doing so efficiently and with apparently less bugs. Let's hope he
continues.
Woody (the Original)
----------------------
Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
George Carlin