I'm happy to announce the first release of a database adapter for sqlrelay. In short, with this adapter and a small client library your zope server can talk to Oracle, Postgresql, MySQL, mSQL, SQLite, and Lago - without having the client libs for any of these database servers on your Zope server machine. SQLRelay (an open source product by firstworks http://www.firstworks.com) runs a daemon that listens for sql queries - it then relays the query to the database server and returns the results to the socket client allowing you to talk to any of the above databases via a simple socket protocol. Two python APIs are provided - one that closely matches the sqlrelay client API and one that is semi DB API compliant. The database adapter works on top of the DB API. The DA and python interfaces are included in the latest release of SQLRelay. You will also need to download the latest release of the rudiments library. Both can be had from the firstworks homepage: http://www.firstworks.com Much thanks to David Muse, the author of SQLRelay, for near 24 hour support in getting this written. ^Roman