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Program written in Delphi 5 and using BDE - Is this out of date?

Asked by b1gd0g in Delphi Programming, Delphi Database

Tags: bde, engine, vista

HI there,
I am not actually a programmer, but our company owns a piece of software that I am incharge of developing, selling, marketing, implementing and training. Our principal business is automotive parts, and although I know a lot about networks and PC's, i'm not a programmer. And I do not know very much about Delphi.
The problem is that the only person that I get any feedback from is the guy who writes the software, however, and despite good sales, recently I have felt as though we are a bit out of touch with available technology (The programmer is 58 years old and probably doesn't want to take on anything new). The program is still being written in Delphi 5 (C#). We use the Borland Database Engine. It is networked through file sharing and the data contains 295 tables and indices (Approx 120MB). Hopefully you get the picture.
My question is very simple. Are we out of date. Is there any advantage to SQL Server? Is there any advantage to using the Microsoft Database Engine instead of BDE? Is that even possible? Will Microsoft Vista cause a problem? Hopefully, some of you guys will have been in this position before and made a judgement. I would be very greatful if you would enlighten me to the possibilities or whether I should just let it be.
Its really just to get another perspective on the matter.
Many Thanks

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Program written in Delphi 5 and using BDE - Is this out of date?

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Tags: bde, engine, vista

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