At 14:44 Saturday, 21.02.2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Can I run InterBase 6 and FireBird 1.5 (RC 9) at the same time, on the same
>server and on the same port (gds_db 3050/tcp) without any problems ?
>Additional info:
>My Prog A will access InterBase 6 using the gds32.dll located in the
>C:\Windows\System32 folder.
>My prog B will access Firebird 1.5 using the cloned (using instclient)
>gds32.dll located in the Prog B folder.

I don't think so. Maybe you can explain why you want to do this. How should
two services be able to bind and listen to the same socket/port? And who
should guess which server is meant to accept the request?

You can however run the two servers on the same machine but on different
ports: Get the latest release notes from here
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&s=1077338580:19681&page=ibp_download_15
and read them, especially the section "Configuring the port service on
client and server" and the relevant parts of "New Configuration File –
firebird.conf" and its subsection "Using the connection string".

HTH,
Markus