>Srdjan,
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>We used views that made it easy to flick between backends, so yes the data was buffered. ;-)
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>Suffice to say that the customer had "issues".

You can blame your sales dpt for nailing such fine architecture into 'Afganistan' kind of setup. From my past experiences; 'Issues' are common among client IT setups, so it is actually application issue to hande 'Kabul countryside' well <g>