>I have a collegue who is sold on a product from Computer associates called Jasmine. From what I can gather they are touting it as a revolutionary product that Fujitsu has been working on and developing for the last 14 years. It's supposedly the first truly object oriented relational database system incorporating graphics and multimedia. He says that Microsoft doesn't have anything to compete with it except for a product which he referred to as ADO, which he says is dog slow, terrible performance etc. > >Can anyone give me the scoop on ADO and if you have heard of Jasmine and the scoop on that? I have been using ADO for the web and jus like ODBC it is dog slow. But still, I don't know if you can compare Jasmine (I've never heard of it) with the purpose of ADO. If Jasmine is a dedicated database (like VFP, Oracle, Informix, etc.) then we're talking apples and oranges. Any dedicated language will always be faster then generic connection managers like ADO and ODBC.