Re: ODBC drivers

> According to Borland, you don't need ODBC to access Informix from > within Delphi. This, hopefully, means that Delphi will have > faster access to data than would an ODBC-based solution. One > proviso: I'm not sure if Informix support is built into Delphi > for Windows (the entry level product) or only into Delphi > Client-Server version (the more expensive offering). Benjamin, native Informix support is NOT built into the entry-level product (the one I am using). The entry level product has native support for dBase, Paradox, and the Interbase engine only. > > I saw a demo of Delphi today and would be very interested to hear > how your experience goes. Please let me know! I'm not sure who this message was intended for (it was addressed only to informix-list), but I would be happy to share my Delphi experiences with you. I am concurrently learning Delphi, Visual Basic, and PowerBuilder. So far, I like Delphi better than Visual Basic. Data access is much stronger, the executables are faster (compiled vs. interpretive), and the development environment is friendly. I haven't learned enough about PowerBuilder to make a comparison yet. I am certainly lamenting the lack of a setup wizard in Delphi, though! --------------------------------------------- Jim Carr BASS, Inc. Systems Analyst Dayton, OH