The old versions talked to InterBase, that it worked with Firebird was serendipity....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/20 David Brennan <<a href="mailto:dugdavid@dbsolutions.co.nz">dugdavid@dbsolutions.co.nz</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On the other hand SQL Server also competes with Interbase... yet Codegear<br>
haven't yet decided to shoot themselves in the foot by refusing to let<br>
Delphi talk with it.<br>
<br>
New versions of Delphi should talk to everything that old versions do IMO.<br>
If they don't then there should be a good reason for it (eg if the database<br>
is no longer in serious use which doesn't apply to Firebird).<br>
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