Yes, it is possible to inquire the server version running. Where I don't
have any help is asking the client to identify itself.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Schmidt" <paul@...>
To: "Riho-Rene Ellermaa" <r.ellermaa@...>; <IBObjects@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: [IBO] Urgent - Problem with StoredProc and prepare


> Riho-Rene:
>
> On 24 Jan 2001, at 9:59, Riho-Rene Ellermaa wrote:
>
> To: IBObjects@egroups.com
> From: "Riho-Rene Ellermaa" <r.ellermaa@...>
> Date sent: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:59:16 +0200
> Send reply to: IBObjects@egroups.com
> Subject: RE: [IBO] Urgent - Problem with StoredProc and prepare
>
> > Sorry, if I offended you. I tried to finish with humorous sentence - I
> > read yesterday article about selling and salesmen. There was sample of
> > Ford salesman who was asked about how good their cars are. And the
> > answer was :" I don't know, I drive Volvo". Maybe I should have put
> > more smileys after the last sentence (about Oracle).
> >
> > I don't blame FB developers, but those who wrote this bug - whoever
> > they are. I'm not very happy with big companies attitude to bugs.
> > Other example from Borland - in their BC++ 5 (3-4 years back) they
> > had error in one of the header files (richedit.h I think) - open
> > comment /*. Of course it's easily fixed, but not for the beginners.
> > The same mistake is still in their BC++Builder 4 !!!! I don't know
> > easier bug to fix.
>
> It's possible that this bug, sneaks around the debugging scripts,
> and that nobody has reported it to the people responsible for fixing it.
> Realistically the support team, should file a bug report, with the
> development team, but it's possible that one was filed years ago,
> and it never arrived.
>
> > But take small developers - they can't afford to lose clients and
> > maybe they have associate more with their products. When some bug is
> > found in IBO, then the fix comes up in days if not in hours. And
> > that's done with only by 1 person - Jason.
> >
>
> Realise that for a company like Jason's or mine, to fix a small bug,
> is easy and cheap, we simply fix it. For a large company, where
> corporate political wills are involved, and approvals have to go
> through 47 people, most of whom exist only to make the process
> difficult, then it's much more difficult, and expensive. A Bug that
> costs, Jason or I $5 (worth of billable time), could cost a company
> like Borland $500,000 (worth of management and development time) to
> fix.
>
> Now Firebird could fix this one, but then programs that work on FB
> might not work on IB. I don't know, is there a way from IBO to find
> out what version of the DB engine is being used? Hmmm, Jason, if
> your reading, is there a way to find out what version of the engine
> is being used, even if it's on another machine?
>
> Paul
> Paul Schmidt,
> Tricat Technologies
> Email: paul@...
> Website: www.tricattechnologies.com
>
>
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