At 15:02 25.04.2003 +0200, you wrote:

> > Don't be confused, you are not sharing any connections - you're not even
> > sharing a license, really. You are using the license to it's full. Each
> > connection operates to the exclusion or other users. The license is server
> > based, not client based. Your app, though, may well be writtent using the
> > BDE. Now that's going to have to change for you to move up to IB7 anyway.
> > The license installed into ib4.3 will not be able to be installed against
> > the IB7 server. They are lost to IB4.2.
>
>But we going to migrate on Delphi 7 (we were using Delphi 3) so we will
>stop using the BDE. So does it means that with Delphi 7 and IB 7.0 there
>is no way to have legally 3 free connections ?

What is the reason for you wanting to use InterBase rather than Firebird?
I'm not saying that you could not have good reasons for doing so, but you
haven't said anything about why you want to do so. Both Firebird 1.0 and
InterBase 7.0 are a lot better than the IB 4.2 that you have been using,
and IBObjects which you seem to be using supports them both. We switched
from InterBase 5.6 to Firebird 0.9.4 (yes, we used the database in a
production environment before it reached version 1) and it has been a
pleasure to use. I think IB 7.0 is also a good product and I would be
surprised if you got disappointed whichever of them you decide to use. But
one of the big differences between them is that Firebird is free regardless
of how many users you have (you can pay a bit for support and documentation
if you want that) whereas InterBase isn't.

Many of the persons here on this support list is heavily into Firebird. 19
- 20 May there will be a Firebird Conference in Fulda, Germany where e.g.
Helen Borrie, Ann Harrison, Jason Wharton and Paul Beach will be amongst
the speakers. Unless you have specific reasons for preferring InterBase,
I'd say it would be wiser to spend the money attending that conference than
wasting them on InterBase licenses.

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