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The BAG has new home!

In the years since I setup the BDE Alternatives Guide, my work has taken me in other directions, leaving me little time to keep it up to date. Herb Kraft has adopted the BAG and set it up at the URL below:

http://bdealternatives.com/

Please visit there for up to date information.

The BDE Alternatives Guide is a directory, description, and in some cases evaluation of every available Delphi / C++ Builder data access product. All too often someone asks "How can I access DBF files without the BDE" on a newsgroup, and someone will list one or two ways of doing so. The definitive answer to this question is "See the BDE Alternatives Guide."

The List of all of the products in alphabetical order.

Why Not the BDE? - reasons to consider using a BDE Alternative.

"Choosing a Data Access Solution" tells you how to do just that.

The List By Category shows which products are used with local database, file server databases, database servers, etc.

The List By File Type shows you which products work with your particular database server (for example, Oracle) or file type(for example, Access MDB).

Multi-Tier / "DataSnap Alternatives" - a list of products which can be used to build multi-tier applications with Delphi/C++B/Kylix. These products will be integrated in to the list above, but are separate for the moment.

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