> I am trying to come up with some rules of thumb that would
> help me decide when to use Paradox and when to use IB.

Now that IB is so cheap (ie. free), I can think of only one reason to
use Paradox, and that is...

If you need to process a large volume of data on the local disk.
Because Paradox does not have transaction and integrity constraints
imposed by all of its processing, it is possible to massage large
volumes of data (locally) very quickly - possibly faster than what you
could get out of IB, although it still depends on exactly what you are
doing.

> Is there an easy way to include the IB install in InstallShield
> along with and app?

Take a look at the firebird site (http://www.ibphoenix.com/) I seem to
remember seeing and installation script in there somewhere.


HTH

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing