I am currently using IBX and do plan to migrate over to IBO in the near
future due to it's richness. However, I can honestly tell you, I have not
had one problem concerning the IBX components. For what I needed them to
do, they fullfilled.

Jeff Molloy

At 02:10 PM 12/28/2000 -0700, you wrote:

>I would like to solicit the opinions of others on why you chose IBO over IBX
>and what the advantages you feel that you enjoy by having made that choice.
>I have nothing to lose by campaigning these benefits and plan to do so. I've
>been much to passive to date on how I have addressed this topic.
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>Too many people are using IBX when they don't have to and it is causing a
>lot of mess and frustration in our InterBase community because it is so
>immature and poorly written. IBX is good in some ways but there are too many
>things that are just plain done wrong and are injuring people's capacities
>to write good software or at best causing them to have to do too much work
>to have anything worth using.
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>We need to make sure people understand that IBO is the suite of choice for
>the InterBase community when it comes to writing client/server applications
>with Delphi and CPPB. They also need to know why without any apologies.
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>Why am I doing this? First of all because I get asked it a lot and second
>because I owe it to the community to give people as much accurate
>information as possible so that people can make the most accurate and
>informed decisions as to what tools they commit to.
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>If there are some advantages you think IBX has, pass them along too if you
>wish.
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>If you prefer, just send them privately to me.
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>Thanks!
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>Jason Wharton
>CPS - Mesa AZ
>http://www.ibobjects.com
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