>>>What if a not too small customer asks about Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL or even dbf again <g>?
>Invest 15% more of your time now to work through exchangable layers.
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>I've been doing this a long time and I"ve NEVER seen a client replace one client-server backend with another and retain the original front and middle tiers.
>I've done scads of conversions from .dbf to SQL Server, etc, but not one single switch between client-server backends.
>Are things different in the large company market?
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>That said, since we use SPT with vanilla ANSI SQL and try to stay away from proprietary features where possible, I'm wondering how big a deal it would be to switch to go_sql, for example?
>I've seen examples of SPT code accessing go_sql tables and the code was almost identical to the code we use to access SQL Server tables.


Well i figure if you have some soft ware a small branch may want is but not necessarily want/ need SQL?