Jason,

I can only report my own experience.

IBX conversion was a no-brainer. Absolutely no conversion problems; The TIBDataSet works exactly as I would like. Our
applications are not extremely complex, about 30 basic tables plus anilliary tables. They do order-entry/fulfillment and the
management. I could never quite get IBO to work the way I wanted it to work.

I was never interested in replacing my infopower grids nor my orpheus data edits, so that part of IBO never interested my (and
it is my opinion that you have spread yourself WAY to thin in the developmnet of these controls).

Finally, the IBX documentation answered my questions; where the IBO documentation usually left more questions to be answered.

For me the bottom line is that IBO did not do what IBX does. As you know I purchased IBO licenses and gave them a fair test. For
our uses, IBX fits, and I chose not to try and fit our applications to IBO's demands.

Tank care,

ed

Jason Wharton wrote:

> Ed,
>
> > Have you considered using IBX?
> > We do not use MIDAS, but a simple BDE conversion was painless.
> >
> > The big difference for me was that all I had to replace was the database
> and query components (& add transactions). I have
> > found the TDataSet component very smooth and fast.
> >
> > I would not reject IBX out-of-hand. It is a much easier replacement and if
> you applications are not extremely complex it may
> > work well for you too.
>
> Much easier than what?
>
> What is your definition of "extremely complex"?
>
> Ed, I think you better do some more homework and research on both sides of
> the fence before you come in here stating what you have.
>
> IBX doesn't even come close to doing all of what the BDE based components
> did for you and IBO does all the BDE stuff did and a whole lot more, minus
> the BDE's quirks. Conversion to IBX is quite a painful task for just about
> any application on the BDE compared to what IBO allows. If it is easy to
> convert it to IBX then it would convert to IBO in merely seconds. How long
> would it take you to port the MastApp from BDE to IBX? In IBO it takes you
> about 1 minute if you follow the simple instructions in my conversion guide.
>
> IBX also "redefines" a lot of things into a quirky mess. Things like
> RecordCount, Refresh, Filter, etc. are broken in my opinion. There are
> things it does differently that you wont catch unless you examine very
> closely what is going on. You seem to pass off the transaction issue as no
> big deal. Well, for a lot of people it is a bid deal and some of the recent
> developments in IBX transactions are corrupting a lot of people's units of
> work, not to mention how horribly buggy it has been in the past and that it
> holds open transaction handles when a dataset is merely active. The sad
> thing is most people aren't going to be aware of it until at some point they
> are going to have fluky problems in their data. This is an utter disgrace to
> InterBase and Borland in my opinion.
>
> FWIW,
> Jason Wharton
> CPS - Mesa AZ
> http://www.ibobjects.com
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/