All,

Our commercial, medical application is D5 / BDE 5.1.1 running on
Interbase 6.0.1 It is running at more than 20 sites. We are at wits
end with Interbase 6.0.1's slow connect time on a particular client's
Windows 2003 install. I have tried many suggestions to alleviate it
to no avail.

Also, I am aware of the prudence of ditching BDE. This is planned,
just not in time for this client to be happy.

Interestingly, when installing Firebird 1.0.3 on the same machine,
the connect time (measured using BDE control panel applet) is
negligible.

...So, unless some one has better advice,

I want to uninstall Interbase and Install Firebird 1.0.3 on the
server and update to the Firebird 1.0.3 GDS32.dll on the client
machines.

Will this work within reason? My definition of reasonable is that if
the BDE/Interbase connection had problems before, having the same
problems in Firebird are reasonable. If the this introduces other
problems, than I'll need to consider what those may be.

Of course I intend to
Backup in Interbase
Restore in Firebird
Maintain dialect 1
update gds32.dll
anything else?

Thanks very much -- you guys are really great.

Kevin Herrmann