Hi,

> I am new to Delphi and I wish to find the best (most long-term)
> component system to use with Delphi7 and Firebird 1.5.
>
> Supposedly dbexpress is Borland's preferred way of dealing with
> remotes RDBMSs. But ibexpress seems to have more functionality.
>
> Which component set do you recommend for the long run?

dbExpress should/could be used when you want to write a
single application that includes support for multiple DBMSes.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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