Hi, first thanks to everyone who helped with the matter. Secondly, I would like to report on the two solutions we find to make a Zope on Linux talk to a SQL-Server-2000 DB on W2K: 1)Using freeTDS we wrote a shell script that is called by a Python script,saves the query results to a tmp file that is read into a string object and finally rendered. The problem is the number of IO operations in highly usage environments. 2)Using ZDataQuery + ODBC socket server on W2K Some remarks: we expect some hundreds queries a day, no updates on the DB. The resulting sets are relative small. Bye for now, Rogerio ------------------------------------------------- E-mail enviado pelo Webmail CensaNET http://www.censanet.com.br/webmail