I just need a sanity check here

I know that running the server on Win98 will be phased out and I have no
problem with that, since the notes I'm seeing for FB3 say that the client will
still be able to connect FROM a Win98 machine. But what is the current time
line on things here. In particular, for those large display systems that I
still have running multiple graphics cards on Win98SE will I be able to drop
an FB2.5 or FB3 client on at some time and still get the same simple query
results I currently look up?

Main reason I'm asking is because of the debate of the PHP interface where it
is being claimed that the client needs to be compiled in VC9 to work with
newer versions of PHP, but that seems counter to how the client is designed to
work? Not using M$ compilers I don't understand the problem, but I know enough
to know that I can still access FB2.1 from Builder5 :)

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