Thanks, very helpful.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 08:44 AM 7/12/2004 +0700, you wrote:
>
> >if your application is web-based application without client side
> >application like active-x, then you don't need install the firebird
> >client, but if your application is "conventional" application like
> >(delphi, C++,..) then you must install the Firebird client.
>
> That's a confusing answer. You can develop a multi-tier application

in any

> language, including Delphi, etc. You can write a Delphi app that is a
> remote client to this server tier and does not access the API

itself. I'd

> even hazard a guess that most enterprise Delphi systems are designed

this

> way these days, either as intraweb apps, or using layers like Corba,

etc.,

> or as cgi/isapi modules that clients access using a web browser.
>
> For two-tier client/server systems the client needs the client
> library. For multi-tier systems, the data access layer needs the

client

> library and the remote client needs only a mechanism to communicate

with

> the data access layer.
>
> ./hb