apologies I clicked on the wrong link and got to IBObjects instead of
Firebird support group. I will repost this there.

Matthew

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "matthew_2112"
<matthew.middleton@t...> wrote:

> I am farely new with Delphi/Firebird and am administering a PC
> product we sell which uses Firebird 1.0
>
> We recently installed at a client inadvertantly knocking out

another

> application there which uses Interbase 6.
>
> I have been told by a technical bod. of the other product that:
>
> Interbase will not work with our version of Firebird.
>
> While they had not done much if any testing of the issue his
> understanding is:
>
> 1) the 2 use the same port, 3050
>
> 2) the same registry key
>
> 3) Firebird release Candidate 1.5 does supposedly work with

Interbase

>
> I would like to find out what options are available to us:
>
> a) Are there any workarounds to allow the 2 products to coexist?
>
> b) Otherwise what version would we need to upgrade to?
>
> c) How easy is such an upgrade likely to be?
>
> d) Is it still free?
>
> e) Is there a good site for this issue?
>
> thanks for any input,
> Matthew