Firstly, thanks to all respondents of my previous queery on Firebird
interfaces.
From what I can ascertain, IBO seems to be somewhat
more 'extensible" (complete) than FIB (in terms of available
components) so have decided to explore this route more fully.

Cannot seem to post to newsgroups here (Kuwait) although can read.
So my appologies for asking this question on IBO in this forum
although it does pertain indirectly to using Firebird.

Looking through the 'basic' component sets it would appear that:

For Delphi X Desktop I would require:
IB Core, IBO Native Data Access and IBO Native Data Aware

For Delphi X Pro I would only need IBO TDataset and maybe IBO Native
Data Aware.

There does not appear to be any 'definitive' statement of these
requirements on the IBO website.

At the moment I use D5 but am thinking of moving to D7 (foolish?) -
but I think that the desktop version would meet my needs so
therefore scheme '1' above would be required if I do. However, if I
stick to D5 pro in the short term would these same components still
work (i.e. Core and Data Access)?

Are the two 'suites' (i.e. IB Native vs. IBO TDataset) identical in
terms of performance or are there any advantages one has over the
other? In other words assume that the 'Core' components replace the
Delphi equivalents that do not come with the Desktop version and
that IBOTDataset relies on Delphi ancestor classes. So are they
superior in any respects?

Thanks to those that wade through this lengthy posting!

Regards,