{"id":624,"date":"2010-02-25T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2010-02-25T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:28:31","slug":"another-one-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/624\/","title":{"rendered":"Another One Bites The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span><p>Another commercial Delphi component vendor has apparently decided to pursue a direction that no longer involves supporting at least some of their Delphi components on a commercial basis. \u00a0Fortunately in this case they have decided to open source their products. \u00a0So, if you are using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxena.com\">Luxena DBExpress<\/a> drivers for Informix, these and related supporting code can now be obtained from the Google Code links, below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/dbexpinf\/\">dbExpress drivers for Informix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/dbxext\/\">dbExpress Extension<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/idac\/\">Informix Data Access Components<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/lxlibrary\/\">Luxena Common Library<\/a> (needed by IDAC and dbExpress Extension)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Cameron Hart of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flowsoftware.co.nz\">Flow Software<\/a> for originally posting this information to the NZ DUG mailing list. \u00a0There has been no official announcement from Luxena on this as yet (their web site &#8220;news&#8221; showing only the most recent updates to their components&#8230; from 2006!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span> Another commercial Delphi component vendor has apparently decided to pursue a direction that no longer involves supporting at least some of their Delphi components on a commercial basis. \u00a0Fortunately in this case they have decided to open source their products. \u00a0So, if you are using the Luxena DBExpress drivers for Informix, these and related supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[102,101,292,99,100],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-a4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":697,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/697\/","url_meta":{"origin":624,"position":0},"title":"Deploying without DBXDRIVERS.INI","date":"26 Nov 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"As far as I can tell, as of Delphi 2010 at least it is impossible to deploy a DBExpress application without also deploying at least one dbxdrivers.ini. 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