Subject RE: [firebird-support] Firebird and National Online
Author Alan McDonald
No,
If you watch the demo here
http://www.nab.com.au/Business_Solutions/0,,678,00.html
it appears to be a client server app running locally (using Interbase) for
reporting etc and recording payments and then going online (securely) to
transfer/execute transactions.
Interbase is being used as local storage and offers multi-user access.
Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-
> support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Borrie
> Sent: Monday, 17 November 2008 11:10 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Firebird and National Online
>
> At 10:34 AM 17/11/2008, you wrote:
> >Quickly found this:
> >
> >http://www.nab.com.au/Business_Solutions/0,,92103,00.html
> >
> >Might be a good bit of marketting for Firebird, if it's running beind
> the
> >scenes... :-)
> >
> >Nige.
>
> Good catch, Nige! But "good for Firebird"? It appears they are using
> IB 6.0 (God forbid!!) It looks like a problem that's only going to
> affect users with dial-up modems, since their client app doesn't work
> with any other kind of connection. Dialup connections and a 9-year-
> old, notoriously bug-ridden, insecure beta database engine...Someone
> needs to talk to these muppets...Alan?
>
> ./heLen
>
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