[DUG] The BDE API formerly known as the Paradox Engine

[Paul Heinz]

Alister wrote: 

> I think the biggest problem with the BDE is that it works - 
> or at least can be made to work, if it was truly broken then 
> people (like myself) would be forced to shift - rather than 
> keep putting it off.

Well, yeah. The BDE works OK navigationally. Don't get me started on BDE
versioning and installation issues though - we shipped a BDE baed app
once - and it sayed ONCE. The BDE _implies_ that you can go relational
easily, but you can't really get a commercially acceptable result (IMO)
without largely refactoring your app.

TTFN,
  Paul.