>>Being the Federal Gov't with our computer resources in RTP and managed under contract, getting any changes to the DB2 side was next to impossible. So we currently live with the Oracle Gateway. The up side is that performance is not affected at all.
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>What is RTP?
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>I heard that EPA was one of the agencies most fond of contracting out everything. Perhaps it's because they suffer more from expanding, unfunded mandates.

That is how Congress and the President usually work these days. Kind of like drug dealers, you get a free or reduced rate sample to get you hooked, then you get nailed for the whole bill later. Remember the 100,000 Police law?