At 05:45 PM 11/03/2006, you wrote:

>I have an old registered copy of Delphi 5 Standard which included a
>commercial distribution licence but no Tdataset components.
>
>Presumably I could use the native IB components successfully, but
>would not be able to use any of the TIBO components?

Correct. But you won't be able to use the TIB_* web components,
either, because the web support is another thing that D5 standard
doesn't include.

Helen