> I am thinking of migrating to Firebird soon because of migration
> issues with IB dialects.

The sooner the better <g>

> Also I run web sites that have multiple IB dbs (Websnap, webbroker).
> I have been struggling with some BDE "initialization failure" on a
> sporadic basis, and unable to solve.

I never did get BDE and Interbase stable ...

> Any recommendations for an alternative connection...If ADO then any
> recommended OLE DB providers for IB/Firebird.
>
> Any comments or recommendations of IBOjects components.

I'm now running 24/7 on several 'heavy' sites with no
problem FB and IBObjects. Can't comment on any alternatives,
as I have not needed them since I changed in IBO3 times.
IBO4 has just removed more of the additional libraries I was
using, so I don't use much more now ( FastReport for reports
- IBO native )

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