Just to be even handed I have been using FIBPlus with success lately. It is
a derivative of FreeIb and apart from some of the docs being suspect, seems
very good and continually being developed (devrace.com).

JAC


""Woody (TMW)"" <woody.tmw@...> wrote in message
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> > I am deciding if I wish to convert my c/s development from Interbase
> > Open Source to Firebird.
> >
> > One of the questions that I wish to ask is can the IB Express
> > components be used to access Firebird? Or IB Objects? Which component
> > sets would be better, or easier to use?
> >
> > Anyone with any experience to share?
> >
> > Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
> If you are going to stay with FireBird, then I would suggest that you

switch

> to using IBO instead of IBX. While IBX, at present, seems to work with
> FireBird, the rules are constantly changing and it will probably be
> incompatible in the near future. Jeff Overcash has stated emphatically

that

> no modifications will be made to IBX to make if work with FB. Jason

Wharton,

> author of IBO, has made it plain that he will continue to try to stay
> compatible with both. I strictly use IBX and IB so I can't comment further
> on IBO's usability but from everything I hear, you shouldn't have any
> problems going that route.
>
> HTH
>
> Woody (TMW)
>
> "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
> -Steve Wozniak
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