>>A few months ago I participated (in another forum) in a very interesting discussion about whether business objects should represent tables or more "conceptual" abstractions. There seems
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>As I am always very interested in discussions about that topic ... would you mind telling me where the discussion was (maybe plus some keywords for me to serach for), so I can go there and have a look at it?


It was on a specific Visual MaxFrame Professional message board that was available while VMP 2002 was on beta. Now that VMP 2002 has been released I think the beta message board is not available anymore.