Hi Charlie,

Having used both anydac and ibo, both will do the job but anydac is imo quite superior (http://www.da-soft.com/anydac/)

Tom

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Steinmaurer <ts@...> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:12, charlie<kerscher@...> wrote:
> >> Please forgive me if I'm not asking this in the right forum. After reviewing a lot of comments about which database to convert to I'm (apprehensively) wanting to convert to Firebird. Frankly I have no idea how to begin. I sincerely appreciate any help you will offer me in how to begin and make the transition from dBase/BDE to Firebird.
> >> Am using RAD Studio 2007. My application is being used by 5 - 8 users on a Win XP network.
> >
> > Try using IBObjects' TDataset based components, this is possibly the
> > easiest conversion.
> > BDE-to-IBO Migration Guide:
> > http://www.ibobjects.com/TechInfo.html
>
> I once did a BDE to IBO conversion presentation at a conference.
> Although it was one of Delphi's BDE-based demonstration application, so
> rather a small one, it was a matter of a few minutes to convert the
> BDE-based source code over to IBO (I'm not talking about the database
> structure, but there are tools out there for that as well). There was
> some kind of funny WUAH effect in the audience. ;-)
>
> After the conversion, a good practice is to run SysInternals
> ProcessExplorer to check if the application still loads any BDE dll's.
>
> Another conversion project moving away from the BDE, in this particular
> case with MSSQL, went fine with AnyDAC. AnyDAC can connect to Firebird
> natively as well, but doesn't have that mature stuff like automatic OAT
> advancing, DML Caching etc ... as in IBO.
>
>
>
> --
> With regards,
>
> Thomas Steinmaurer
> Upscene Productions
> http://www.upscene.com
> http://blog.upscene.com/thomas/
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