RE: TZF - On the subject of components

Hi,

yes, Turbo Power components are free, but if you develop commercial 
programms you should read Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)

Guenter

Alex Mackinnon wrote:
> 
> Hi Benno,
> 
> I agree with you that the TP stuff is now dead as far as updates are
> concerned... But this has never been as big an issue for me as having
> the source code. I was the first (I think) to update FlashFiler and
> Orpheus for D6 when it came out (Turbopower were a bit notorious for
> 'needing' to release a new version - chargeable - whenever a new Delphi
> came out!) so I'm not too bothered about making things work with new
> versions of Delphi/CBuilder either LOL.
> 
> I've been deploying FlashFiler for years (originally the 1.21 version
> but right through to the 'current') and have never found bugs to be a
> major factor... I think it is like many C/S setups... It needs a little
> care and consideration in the usage.
> 
> I too still find plenty of uses for Topaz... It has a very small
> footprint and nice 'automatic' creation facilities that make it ideal
> for just dropping a little data-handling into an application but when I
> need anything C/S FlashFiler fits the bill nicely... To put it in
> perspective in one of my larger projects FlashFiler was able to replace
> Sybase SQLAnywhere and save me a fortune!
> 
> A.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: B. Evers [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 10 November 2003 09:20
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: TZF - On the subject of components
> 
> 
> Alex,
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Mackinnon" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:43 AM
> Subject: TZF - On the subject of components
> >
> 
> The Turbo Power components are great, but the projects are currently not
> maintained at sourceforge. New delphi versions will probably loose
> support and also there is nobody to knock on the door in case of
> problems. Mail through sourceforge to the projectmaintainer bounces or
> is not answered.
> 
> > FlashFiler for instance is especially useful when you want a more 
> > sophisticated client-server database or when DBase compatibility is 
> > not an issue.
> 
> Flashfiler was extremely buggy (I think that is one of the problems of
> TurboPower before they stopped). Also flashfiler lacks a lot of
> functionality a client server database needs.
> 
> I discussed the concept of flash filer as an ad on for Topaz with Alfred
> about 2 years ago. His answer was that Topaz is good for what it does,
> but building a server around it would be a waist of time. I now agree
> with him. Topaz is great for single user apps and can be used for apps
> in small muli-user environments. Is has the same problems as all
> databases on this concept (M$-access, Flash-filer, dbase, Advantage,
> Apollo etc). You can't guarantee data integrity of your database.
> 
> For me Topaz is still an option. I use it in single user apps, and when
> I need dos clients (yes they are still build today :) ). As soon as I
> expect it to be multi user (now or future) I choose Interbase open
> edition of firebird as the database engine. In that case Topaz comes in
> for local caching of data, and for Gui stuff (I cache my data and
> connect my GUI to Topaz datasets).
> 
> Just my 2 cents
> 
> Benno Evers
> 
> 
> 
> 

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