> btw, I'm pretty sure the Intersolv driver (which was never developed past
> the ill-fated Delphi 5.5) needs the BDE underneath it as well. I think

the

> Easysoft driver was the first "Borland certified" ODBC InterBase driver to
> connect directly via the API rather than through the BDE layer.
>
> (Feel free to scream at me if I'm wrong about that...I became innoculated
> against the temptations of generic interfaces the day I began using IB
> Objects...on the watershed discovery that the primary design objective of
> generic interfaces is to metamorphosise a silk purse into a sow's ear)

Side note, we're using the Intersolv driver without the BDE. We're only
using it for Crystal Reports because, as far as I've been told, Crystal
Reports doesn't have native IB/FB drivers (Anyone know if that's still the
case?). The programmer who is also our Crystal guru said that it is not
good for writing, but it could handle reading data.
I'll leave my comments about generic interfaces to myself, as we support
IB/FB and SQLServer with our application... There've been mutterings as well
that some customers might want Oracle support.. Generic interfaces is the
only way to do that and keep our sanity. :)

- Jason