Subject Re: [firebird-support] Avoid the client?
Author Helen Borrie
At 09:17 PM 12/04/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>My application is loaded on a server so that it doesn't have to be
>deployed to each workstation. Is there a way to avoid installing the
>Firebird client on each workstation?

No; because the client provides the network connection layer as well as
the data transport layer. When it is invoked by the application, it waves
its arms and says "Hey, network, I'm node X, listening for gds_db on port
3050, who's a server?" So that is a node-to-node communication, not just
software-to-software.

/heLen