Subject Re: [IBO] interbase6 vs firebird1
Author Helen Borrie
Roberto,

Sorry you are moving about - your message was forwarded to ib-support, not this list (ibobjects).

Please go to http://www.yahoogroups.com/groups/ib-support and join there. Sean Leyne is waiting there to respond to your question.

Thanks,
Helen
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At 02:41 PM 24-08-01 +0000, you wrote:
>because i don't are a interbase expert i want to post a question to
>group:
>
>i'm begin to use interbase 6 for a massive project....... now i know
>that the old (and original writers) engineers of IB start a group for
>making the next interbase opensource project called FIREBIRD ..... i
>also know that borland continue the interse project itself.....
>
>the members count of sourceforge section of borland-interbase source
>tree is of 10 (ten) developers ( i don't know any )....
>
>the members of the new firebird project into sourceforge count 50
>developer, and of these i know harrison, etc, the original writers of
>the engine .....
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>now ..... what engine to choice ? Interbase 6 borland ? Firebird 1.0
>from ibphoenix (original writers ). And the future ? We can expect 2
>different engines, and 2 different formats ?
>
>Can someone have experience with firebird 1 ?
>Can firebird 1 have solved the main problems of ib6 official ?
>- a best managing of the cache ( the 10.000 pages of limit .... and
>the manager isn't dynamic but static in ib6 )
>- a best support for SMP systems
>- a best support of native NT performance enhancements ( overlapped
>I/O, IOCompletionPorts for working threads, and using
>criticalsections with affinitymask and not the orrible mutex/locking
>obsolete mechanism? )
>I'm very confusing.... maybe my choice is mySQL, i found a good
>direct interface for delphi !
>
>IB6 or Firebird ?
>
>Thank for any response ( sorry for bad english :-).
>
>Cheers.
>
>Roberto.
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