Anybody on the development side care to comment on the 'exotic' features in the to-do list? Specifically the querying-across databases feature? Way exotic? Not-so-exotic-but-no-one-has-the-time? Would-have-to- re-plumb the entire database engine type of exotic? Portability with 'standard' commercial DBs is difficult without even being able to fake this (i.e. having the parser drop the schema name in a query at the least). I would drop Oracle like a skunked beer if I could get over this hurdle... -- Regards, Andrew Rawnsley Ravensfield Geographic Resources, Ltd. (740) 587-0114 www.ravensfield.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly