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General Meeting
Location: Auditorium
Date: Tuesday, September 5
Topic: InterBase 6.0
Wayne Niddery, WinWright Consulting
http://home.ican.net/~wniddery
Sean Leyne, Atkin & Associates
mailto:sleyne@atkin.com

Sean will begin by presenting a review of the currently available open source/license SQL DBMS products, those products being; Interbase 6.0, PostgreSQL 7.0 and mySQL 3.23. The review will include a brief history of the products, licensing models, the DBMS approaches used and as well as a feature set comparison.

Next, Sean and Wayne will give an in depth look at Interbase SQL Server v6.0. The Interbase product was recently release as open-source, thus allowing for all developers to take advantage of it strong history and wide feature set. The presentation will discuss:

  • A general overview Interbase SQL Server
  • The new v6.0 features
  • A review of the future plans/direction
  • A review of the support resources available
  • A review of Data Access methods
    • ODBC
    • JDBC
    • ADO/OLE DB
    • Others
  • A review of Delphi/C++ Builder programming techniques
    • BDE
    • IBObjects
    • IBExpress

The final part of the meeting will be devoted to a Question and Answer period.

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