Hi! I've just been said about an article, by Brian Jepson, in which there is a comparison between ADO.NET and GNOME-DB, which may be of interest it's at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/07/09/mono.html cheers -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@gnome-db.org> - <rodrigo@ximian.com> http://www.gnome-db.org/ - http://www.ximian.com/