A Question for IB Development team

[Tauseef Shazad]

I just cant believe that a database as good as IB has no ADO support. Do you
believe Interbase has a scope only within Borland development tools and it
will never need any other connectivity besides IBExpress or BDE ?

I think you underestimate your product. Give it a native ADO driver to
flourish in other technologies such as ASP or even within MS development
tools such as VB/VC. I believe MS developers will adopt it pretty quickly as
Access engine is too pathetic and MSDE is too limited :)

Warm regards

Tauseef Shazad

[Jeff Overcash (TeamB)]

There are several ODBC drivers already available and 3 OLE DB Providers in beta
I know of. Borland has never written these drivers for InterBase and do not
have the people on staff to do so now. The third party market will be filling
these needs if the market is calling for them.

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[Tauseef Shazad]

Which ODBC drivers TeamB officially recommends and how to get hold of these
drivers ?

Will this not create another incompatibility among different software. i.e
if I write software using one OLE DB driver, will it work on another OLE DB
driver ?. Have you a defined minimum functionality defined for these OLE DB
developers. How can a developer make sure that his software will work
accross multiple ODBC/OLE DB drivers without "feature not implemented" sort
of messages for different ODBC drivers. Or do you want each developer to
load his own version of ODBC driver on a single client machine.....

Comeon guys, give a single standard OLE DB accessibility layer for
Interbase.

"Jeff Overcash (TeamB)" <over...@onramp.net> wrote in message
news:3A16AF88...@onramp.net...

[Jeff Overcash (TeamB)]

Tauseef Shazad wrote:
>
> Which ODBC drivers TeamB officially recommends and how to get hold of these
> drivers ?
>

I don't use ODBC or OLE DB so I won't recommend a driver.

>
> Comeon guys, give a single standard OLE DB accessibility layer for
> Interbase.
>

Borland has never written these drivers, they have always been furnished by
third parties. They will continue to be furnished by third parties.