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The BAG Needs a New Home

In the years since I created the BDE Alternatives Guide, my work has taken me in other directions, leaving me little time to keep it up to date; it has essentially not been updated since around 2002. I you want to "adopt" it, creating updated content and design on your web site, I will happily link to your new site. If you are interested, you can download the BAG adoption kit with all the raw data I used to create the pages here.

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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