The ZOPE site has a description of use with Ultraseek: http://www.zope.org/Community/CaseStudies/NewsScan/ "...The fundamental breakthrough that Zope provided was to turn Ultraseek Server's search engine into a "Database Adapter", as if it were a relational database. Then the Zope architecture becomes responsible for all Web interactions with the customers, thus supporting the business model...." If the client News-Scan wasn't using the ultraseek server could ZTables and some Zope interface do the same thing? Ultraseek seems expensive at $1 per document with 1000 document minimum and $0.50 per document up to 10,000 documents. http://software.infoseek.com/products/ultraseek/ultraprice.htm What are the benefits of using ultraseek versus a pure ZOPE solution? Yes, I know that ZTables is not yet open source but I assume that it will be available ... "Real Soon Now" ! -Bob OConnor bob@rocnet.com "May the Source be with you!"