Third-party componet suppliers is what made me stick with Delphi in the first place.
When you have a development platform that allows the proliferation of a plethora of
third-party components, you know that platform is powerful, flexible and extensible.

IMHO Borland products are extremely well engineered. Have you analized how
everything in Object Pascal and the VCL have a reason-why? I just hate products (like
MS ones, or Perl) that impose what seems arbitrary obstacles, or on the other end
arbitrary simplifications.

Surely well-engineered products have a harder learning curve, but the "momentum" you
gain is proportional.

Also take into account that Borland officially is not locked into one platform. JBuilder,
Kylix and Interbase shows that Borland focus is exclusivly on us (the
developers/designers/architects), supporting us were we need to go, today it's Linux,
perhaps tomorrow will be SCO Unixware? (hope not!).

Regards,
Daniel Berstein.

On 26 Jul 2003 at 7:03, Tony Blomfield wrote:

> HI Doug.
>
> I have been burnt in the past by OEM Compoinents and as a matter of policy
> dont use them.
>
> Here are the Problems.
>
> Supplier ceases business (TurboPower)
> Have to purchase new version with every release of Delphi (7 Times)
> Often are not backward compatible.
> Code is often poor quality
> Poor integration with Delphi.
> Heavy commitment to learning new components.
> No possibility of porting to C#.NET
>
> In general, OEM components are over priced because of the upgrade policies.
>
> Also, correct me if I am wrong, but with IB Objects I have to commit to the
> Data Aware components. ie Delphi DA Components no longer work.
>
> Yes, Borland have made that statement and it pisses me off. That among many
> other reasons is why I am moving away from Borland in general.
>
> I am not aware of FIBPlus.
>
> I will go look it up.
>
> Basically I was looking for a straight Port of existing code to FB. I dont
> mind changing my SQL because thats externalised from my Apps anyway, but I
> draw the line at having to re-engineer my Application Servers from top to
> bottom.
>
> Thanks anyway,
>
> Tony.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Chamberlin [mailto:yahoogroups@...]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:35 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
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> At 7/25/2003 12:36 AM (Friday), Tony Blomfield wrote:
> >Also, I am pretty much against using 3rd party components for a variety of
> >reasons.
>
> Well, if your are switching to Firebird you MUST use third-party components
> because the Firebird project does not provide any Delphi components.
> Borland-provided components ARE third-party components in this situation.
> Why you would use them when they have stated that they will NOT maintain
> Firebird compatibility? The other choices (IB Objects or FIBPlus) are much
> better solutions once you get beyond Firebird 1.0.
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