From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
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Well, you have read my comments. As to "bugs being in pre-release versions
of Firebird" - with a handful of exceptions (effects of changes to FB), bugs
that WERE in pre-release versions of FB are STILL in the antecedent Open
Edition Interbase. Study the Firebird buglist (both fixed and open) and
figure it out....

The thing that astonishes me is that there are folk out there who continue
to assume that those old, untested Interbase beta binaries are
production-safe... at best, they have the bug-fixes that Borland had
harvested from the Firebird tree at the time they were built - and that is a
VERY long time ago in Firebird-days.

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Helen,

I am running IB (OE) 6.0.1.0 in a production environment and am not having
any problems. I must admit that I /think/ this is mainly due to not
relinquishing control of relational technique to Interbase, though I could
be wrong. Being an old die-hard database theory type, I like to control all
cascading and linking myself in code rather than risk it to different
DBMS's. I find it makes switching from one to another fairly simple without
major rewrites when one DBMS doesn't support something another does. It
means that I probably write more code than most but since I got in this
business because I enjoy it so much, that's no problem for me.

I even maintain the database updates, etc. through the Internet from home
(my office) and the only problem so far is a router dropping problem. I
can't attribute the problem to IB, though it's the only thing that drops,
because the in-house users don't lose their connections. That means it's
somewhere between the Win2k server (where IB is) and the outside router,
IMO.

As to the comment about using older stuff, I know many still using Delphi 1
to write programs. Not everyone came out of the 90's with new and better
equipment. I still have clients using DOS Paradox applications, ugh! :)

Just my $0.02
Woody