Hi Guys,
Anybody else getting that feeling that ElevateDB isn't going anywhere?
The last update was back in Nov'23...
No word from Tim...
I love the product and would hate to think it has finished development.

I feel the same. It is too quiet.

Ian Branch wrote:

Hi Guys,
Anybody else getting that feeling that ElevateDB isn't going anywhere?
The last update was back in Nov'23...
No word from Tim...
I love the product and would hate to think it has finished development.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It's pretty clear that Elevatesoft is no longer in business. There is simply no reason that Tim couldn't take five minutes and post any sort of explanation, even a "I'm working on things.". The fact that he can't be bothered to do even that, but they'll still take your money for renewals, shows that the plan is to milk the existing customer base until it's gone.

I renewed this year but that's it. I'm in the process of converting to NexusDB which is still being worked on, and is actually faster than EDB in many situations, up to twice as fast. It's problem is there's pretty much no documentation on how to use the product, so there's a lot of trial an error.

It's too bad, I liked DBISAM and EDB, but they're orphanware at this point, just like the AidAim products.

All these posts echo my own feelings.

I am still coding, and EDB has been my main DB on multiple client systems since the early 2000s.

I don't really want to transition to something else, I make a lot of use of EDB features like Information and Configuration databases, Replication etc. Recreating these features in a new back end would be a LOT of work.

Does anyone think there might be appetite for making EDB more Open Source. I fully realize it is Tim's product, but if he is not going to develop it, could we (with his permission) do something to put source somewhere like Github and work on it?

Otherwise I can easily imagine a situation where a new Delphi release comes out and EDB won't compile to it, and we have to start tweaking our own source code ... I've had to do that with a other orphaned component sets.

> I don't really want to transition to something else, I make a lot of use of EDB features like Information and Configuration databases, Replication etc. Recreating these features in a new back end would be a LOT of work.

I'm right there with you on this one, but it's something that I might have to start looking at in the near future.

Sadly, I also think EDB might be finished. Waiting for over a year now for a bugfix that prevents me from using D12.

I don't really need new features, just a guarantee that bugs will be fixed and future Delphi versions supported. That alone, to me, would be well worth the subscription fee.

At the moment I'm sitting it out, but if this silence continues I will have to consider migrating to Postgres or MariaDB, which will probably cost me half a year...

Or Firebird...

Hey guys...2.39 just dropped in. There's light on the horizon

Ian Branch wrote:

Hi Guys,
Anybody else getting that feeling that ElevateDB isn't going anywhere?
The last update was back in Nov'23...
No word from Tim...
I love the product and would hate to think it has finished development.



A new update dropped.  I haven't done a source compare to what has changed.