>You can also try SIBprovider OLE DB provider for Firebird/Interbase, maybe will work
>www.sibprovider.com
>
>They have a trial veriosn (60 days) but is very cheap (30 $ for unlimited clients installs)

Good to hear:) But for the moment i stick to ODBC, firmly! ODBC is an int'l standard, OLE DB is an MS-only thing.

The reason: we have a part of the application running great both on linux and win32 (apache+python servlet). It uses odbc (no chance to run OLE DB on linux). I wish to remain consistent in terms of database access.

The long-term view is to migrate the application to a cross-platform tool (current evaluating python+wxwidgets).

Regards