Hello Antony,

AM> Is FIBPlus sill the preffered component suite to connect to Firebird
AM> from D5?
It is one of the FB-oriented compnents. And it's a matter of your
taste to use FIB+, or IBO, or UIB... - they all are FB-oriented.

AM> Anyone know the evaluation period for FIBPlus trial download?
AFAIR, there is no evaluation period: trial components works within
Delphi IDE (I'm not quite sure about it).

AM> If one purchases FIB for D5 does one also get the D7 components as
AM> well (as I am considering upgrading at some point).
AFAIK, you purchase FIB+, and it includes FIB+ components for all
versions of Delphi that support VCL. And, AFAIR, you may freely
upgrade your components during a year since the purchase date.


HTH
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Best regards,
Pavel Menshchikov
http://www.ls-software.com