And, accessing Firebird through Delphi 6, I presume that the IBX COmponents are
the best to access the database, or are there any better components?

Thanx for replying,
Andrew M.

--- Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote: > At 08:11 AM 24-08-02 +0100, you
wrote:

> >Hello,
> > I recently joined this group and was wondering among the 3 databases :
> > IB 6 ,
> >Firebird and IB 6.5; which is the best and what advantages does one have
> over
> >the other?
>
> IB 6.0.1 has a lot of bugs - it was a late beta dating back to January
> 2001. It has versions for Windows, Linux and Solaris. Borland has stated
> that it will not distribute any more free InterBase binaries.
>
> IB 6.5 is a commercial distribution based on the IB 6.0.1 code - it is IB
> 6.0.1 with some bug fixes and a small collection of extra features (you can
> read about those at the Borland site). It is commercial - you have to buy
> the software and also server and user licences. It has versions for
> Windows, Linux and Solaris. It is not open source but you can download
> free trials. Borland currently has IB 7 in beta, also not open source.
>
> Firebird 1 is the active open source distribution based on the same IB
> 6.0.1 C codebase. It has more than 1000 identifiable bug fixes (see the
> bug tracker at http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird ), plus thousands
> more code fixes to make the code more stable; and a number of new
> pieces. Read the release notes for details. It has versions for Windows,
> Linux, 2 Solaris platforms, FreeBSD, HP-UX and others. The software is
> free and there are no licensing fees - "free to use and free to deploy".
>
> Currently in development is Firebird 1.5, functionally similar to Firebird
> 1, with more new features. For 1.5 the entire codebase has been
> reconstructed in C++ with some important architectural enhancements. It
> will be upwardly compatible with InterBase and previous Firebird databases
> and prepare the way for Firebird 2.
>
>
> >And for Firebird, it doesn't come with a Manager like IB 6.0 IBconsole?
>
> The Firebird Project develops the database, the command-line tools and some
> drivers; but not client applications. The reason is that there is a
> highly active community already producing a huge number of manager
> programs, all of which are superior to IBConsole and are under active
> development. Some are free, many are commercial and you are spoiled for
> choice.
>
> To see the offerings, go to the Contributed page at http://www.ibphoenix.com
>
> If you like IB Console, try out Lorenzo Mengoni's derived open source
> IBOConsole at http://www.mengoni.it/downloads.html. Another good, free
> tool with a lot of utilities is IB_SQL which you can get from
> http://www.ibobjects.com
>
> If you plan to develop with Firebird or InterBase, there is an active
> support list at http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/ib-support
>
> The ib-conversions list is specifically about converting other RDBMS
> databases to Firebird or IB. We don't do database support here.
>
> hth
> Helen
>
>

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