Hi Nancy ----

>>Most methods have been blessed by Jacobson, Booch, et al.
>Oh, goodness...Surely you are not saying that even brilliant people can't be occassionally misguided (or at least disagreed with), are you? :)

No, meaning that there really is not that much disparity between OOAD and relational design. Kind of in the same manner that one can say something in Spanish and translate it to Portuguese, capturing almost exactly the same message.