Re: BDE support??

In article <MPG.1e03ce8c658a429698971c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
eddie.shipman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Do we know if, and when, Borland will discontinue support of BDE?
> I need this for an argument to convert to ADO.
>

OK, let me expand on this somewhat...

We have an application that is using controls descended from TDatabase,
TQuery and TStoredProcedure. The controls access MS SQL Server2K and
we'd like to convince the higher ups to ditch the BDE and move to ADO.

We have no local files, Paradox, but the BDE creates those confounded
LCK files regardless of what DB you are using.

We have no intention to move to Firebird or any other RDBMS.

Our, the development team, intention is to convert the controls to ADO
based controls and then write new development using ADO, then
incrementally changing out the old BDE accessed stuff to use the new ADO
controls.

Seems like a good plan but, of course, it'll taks some time. We just
have to come up with some benefit to the customer as well as our
company.

.

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