Being brand new to Zope I may have misunderstood some of the things I have seen in the archives but ...it seems that the intention is to concentrate on Openlink ODBC for database connections. I have used Openlink for many years and would say that it is a fine product but I have serious doubts that it is the way to go for general database connections. (It's not Open Source either..) My particular background is Informix and I would love to use Zope, but there is no native interface. I'm happy to use ODBC during development but for a large scale implementation ? Perhaps its just prejudice but it is a prejudice which will be shared by PHB's everywhere. Also ODBC implies NT and that goes against the whole Open Source philosophy surely. Excuse my ignorance but since there is a Python interface to Informix does that not make it possible to link Zope to Informix directly ? Regards Richard Richard Moon richard@dcs.co.uk