Were about to jump feet first into BDE conversion and Id like to get the
masses opinion on these two drivers..

Cost is not an issue but stability, functionality, support, etc are.

TIA

I am the author of dbxopenodbc.

I use dbxopenodbc myself in my own production environment, and it works very
well. The particular strength of my driver is the error handling --- every
ODBC API call is checked and when an error occurs it gives as much
information as possible. I find this is a great help when debugging my own
projects.

My driver implements the code to enable it to be statically linked into your
application, which is a big advantage for some people (I have been told not
all the 3rd party drivers implement this option). My driver is written in
Delphi, which means you can trace through the code in the IDE..

I have not tried the Easysoft driver, but I am sure it is excellent too.
Nick Goram from Easysoft is an OBDC guru; he created unixODBC, which has
become the standard ODBC driver manager for Linux.

There is also the ODBC driver from Islamov. http://islamov.com/dbexpress/ I
have not tried it myself.

I hope end-users will reply with their own experiences. Even better if
someone could post a comparative test.

Edward Benson.

PS
I am considering changing the licensing of my driver to give users such a
yourself the option for a commercial licence, and also to offer support. If
I do this, the open licence of my driver will change from LGPL to GPL. This
is similar to the licensing options offered for MySql and Kylix. I will post
a separate message about this later.

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Hello, Bob!
You wrote  on Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:14:55 -0600:

 BG> Were about to jump feet first into BDE conversion and Id like to get
 BG> the masses opinion on these two drivers..

You can try to test miscellaneous dbExpress of the driver, miscellaneous
suppliers with the help of the utility of testing " DbExpress Stress ".

[ http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/open-dbexpress/dbxoodb...]

Except for testing of the driver, you also can evaluate operation of your
database server and native libraries of access, for example quality odbc of
the driver.

-
Vadim

Yes -

Ive been testing both drivers, but Im looking for responces from those who
have used either of the drivers and can relate real-life expericences
regarding stability, functionality, support, etc.

Thanx.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/open-dbexpress/dbxoodb...
rStress/]

Hi!

I find a page that may bee usefull;
Additional dbExpress driver options
<http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,28371,00.html>

I have only tested dbxopenodbc and Easysoft for OBDC connection in develop
not in production. We currently use Bold for Delphi connected to a DB2
database using Delphi DB2 dbxdriver. When we used dbxopenodbc/Easysoft there
was a problem with evolve/updating a Mimer SQL (probably due user right or
missing schemas). Both dbxopenodbc/Easysoft seems to work fine if I only
create the Mimer SQL database. I will look into it more when our model is
more stable.

???ooo000 Request 000ooo ???
I think there should bee a page "dbExpress driver page" where you could find
"third-party drivers"/"benchmarks"/"user comments" and also "ToDo for
beginers", probably best in the Borland Community pages.

/Jonas