Office Component Suite?

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May 122004
 

Please have a look at these components. When I look at the sample Delphi code found in the FAQ, I can’t help but thinking: why is this company selling something that’s already present in Delphi? Why do we need a Word or an Excel component? It’s already there in the “Servers” tab. Geez…

What I was looking for was something in the line of RichView (that I have licensed). RichView doesn’t handle headers and footers in RTF/Word documents very well, so I was looking for something else. WPTools seems to do the trick very well, but being a small company, €225 is a lot of money if you don’t know if it will pay for itself. Especially since I already bought TRichView.

Any comments?

 Posted by at 16:42

InterBase vs MySQL

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May 122004
 

Nick blogs about InterBase. He’s fond of it. And so should you be, according to Nick. He points to an article by Bill Todd that compares InterBase 7.1 to MySQL. Of course InterBase is the winner in the article, but in the comparison of features the PRICE of Borland’s InterBase is left out of the equation. MySQL costs next to nothing: a pro-license is US$440. Interbase has more features (the comparison was done right) but it is licensed on a per-user basis. Unlimited users will cost you about US$4000. If you want to start small, say 20 users, it will still cost you about US$2000. MySQL + online backup option (price taken from the article) ~= 440 + 1150 = 1590.

How about putting that into the equation guys??? Lot’s of people choosing MySQL do that because they don’t need a hot-backup and they want to use a fast RDBMS for free. Since you don’t HAVE to buy a pro license. With InterBase you MUST buy a license.

 Posted by at 11:14