At 05:06 AM 19/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>I am farely new with Delphi/Firebird and am administering a PC
>product we sell which uses Firebird 1.0
>
>We recently installed at a client inadvertantly knocking out another
>application there which uses Interbase 6.
>
>I have been told by a technical bod. of the other product that:
>
>Interbase will not work with our version of Firebird.

Out-of-the-box, no.

>While they had not done much if any testing of the issue his
>understanding is:
>
>1) the 2 use the same port, 3050

True, but Firebird can use another port.

>2) the same registry key

True for Fb 1.0.x, False for 1.5

The missing piece is that the executables for both and Firebird 1.0 are
both called ibserver.exe.

>3) Firebird release Candidate 1.5 does supposedly work with Interbase

Yes. Actually, it is Firebird 1.5 and we are at Release Candidate 7. (RC 7).

>I would like to find out what options are available to us:
>
>a) Are there any workarounds to allow the 2 products to coexist?

Yes, but simpler for 1.5. It doesn't share any common names for things
with IB except the name of the service (gds_db).

>b) Otherwise what version would we need to upgrade to?

Hmm, there are two versions, 1.0.x, which shares namespaces with IB, and
1.5, which doesn't.

>c) How easy is such an upgrade likely to be?

Very. It's a point-and-click install.

>d) Is it still free?

Forever free.

>e) Is there a good site for this issue?

www.ibphoenix.com for white papers. The /doc directory of the install for
bits of doc you need to read. Release notes for detailed stuff. This list
for most issues related to the database server and client. Individual
websites and lists for application-side stuff.

heLen