Re: Link from Delphi to Informix
Posted in 1996
This is but one of the reasons why it's so crazy that Informix doesn't support MS Windows (all versions) properly. They do however have new people and a new organization to do it now, so hopefully we will see better performance from now on. Frank Dickinson <frdi@gate.net> wrote: :Slavik Anosov wrote: :> :> Hi! :> :> Now we consider tools for application development with Informix 7 as a server. :> Does anybody know is it possible to provide a link from Delphi Client/Server :> Suite 2.0 to Informix OnLine Dynamic Server 7 (INFORMIX NET 5.0)? We have only :> links to the ORACLE, Sybase, InterBase and SQL Server. Though a link to :> INFORMIX NET 4.0 was included in Delphi Client/Server 1.0. May be we have :> uncomplete distributive? Any suggestions will be appreciated. :> :> Slavik Anosov :> ---------------------------------------------------------------- :- :> phone (W): +(380-44) 242-3674, fax: +(380-44) 444-3157 :> e-mail: parker@topaz.kiev.ua, agrotep@public.ua.net :According to my sources at Borland, the Informix drivers for the :BDE are currently in a Beta 2 stage of release. (They were never :included as part of 2.0) This release has been delayed because :Informix was slow to get their 7.1 clients for NT and 95 :released. The NT client has been around a few months, but 95 :was just released. Hopefully Borland will release the links :soon. :Frank Dickinson Nils.Myklebust@idg.no <- New E-mail adress NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company