SwitchBL8’s gebazel

Perry blogs about Remobjects’ DataAbstract. I can’t decide whether DA is a good thing or not. Back in the old days, BDE was a good thing and so was ODBC. But we soon realized that you could not use native database-calls, only standardized ones. And it was slower than native calls, because an extra in-between layer was introduced. From what I read about it, DA is no different. It makes a programmers job easier, that’s good about it. But I can’t figure out if DA is another BDE/ODBC or if this is really a good product. I know their RemObjects SDK is.