Of course using ADO & MIDAS you don't need to install ADO on the client
machine. Just in the middle tier.
But that is the same for the BDE.
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 3:06 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: ADO V BDE
>
> Quoting Tony Blomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Thanks for the Feedback.
> >
> > On the surface it doesn't seem like a hell of a lot of strong reasons to
> > change technology from the dog ya know to the one ya dont.. I'd really
> > like
> > to hear some compelling reasons to do it.
>
> The most compelling reason that I can see is that Access, SQL server are
> MS
> products and are often being bundled in with systems. Clients will want
> their
> stuff to work with the MS bundle rather than forking out for another
> system,
> and they will want to have a single source of supply for all their system
> support (hardware, network, database servers)
>
> > On the surface so far, It looks like ADO just does what the BDE does -
> no
> > more no less, but reading the MSDN stuff on it, it seems to me that the
> > Transport is more efficient? There is a hell of a lot in the MSDN to
> wade
> > through on this topic.
> >
> > On the other hand, the BDE has a good track record (for me anyway) for
> at
> > least 8 years now, but the rumour is that BDE5.10 is the last.....
>
> I never liked the Access driver that came with BDE 4.x and up. The first
> driver
> was quite buggy. It supposedly improved in 4.5 but not enough. That really
>
> turned me off the BDE native drivers for Access. Now I'm told 5.1 improves
> on
> this but I've lost interest. Adonis when I played with it was fast and
> reliable. I know which I would prefer now. Why have the BDE talking to
> Access
> or whatever when your app can talk more or less directly with ADO?
>
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