On 14 Jan 2002, at 22:09, Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 06:21 PM 14-01-02 +0800, you wrote:
> >Hi all.
> >
> >First, some unfinished business from a prior email:
> >
> >The new CURRENT_USER... how does this differ from USER? Couldn't
> >find detailed info in the RC2 notes (early days, I know!).
>
> Well, I wrote the notes and I don't have any information that says its
> different to USER. afaik, it went in there for a little bit of SQL
> standards compliance.
>
>
> >Second, I'm at the point where I need to settle on an IB development
> >environment. FB for server, of course, but what about Delphi + IB
> >components... your thoughts from experience and expectations much
> >appreciated...
> >
> >
> >(2) D3-6 + IBObjects? This is my dream setup, but unfortunately
> >$800AUD is pretty steep;
>
> Actually, at current exchange rates it's $AUD746. At current Aus
> programmer rates that's about 8 hours of your time. It will save you
> hundreds of times those eight hours...and you might even get to
> collect your holiday pay and take an actual holiday...<g>
>

I can see where he is coming from, sometimes an amount like
$746 (whether AUD or CAD) might as well be $746,000,000 if the
revenue stream is coming in the future and that future revenue is
being spent now. However the trustware licence does give you
some wiggle room, so perhaps IBO is still the best solution.

I would say if your using Delphi, then IBO is definitely the route to
go, I can't say about C++ Builder as I do not use it. For non-
Borland tools, in a C++ environment, I would give IBPP a serious
look (I use it for commercial development).

Paul
Paul Schmidt
Tricat Technologies
paul@...
www.tricattechnologies.com