>>Microsoft and Oracle recently signed agreements that will make Oracle a first class data provider in .NET, putting it on par with SQL Server.
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>That's interesting. Would they make it so it would be easy to change the backend from SQL server to Oracle in case a customer preferes it, or would you need to write the app with one of the two in mind?

Out of the box you can't connect to SQL or Oracle without making some code changes. But if you have a proper data access layer or a framework that provides it then you should be - for the most part - be able to switch on the fly even.

All the major frameworks provide this sort of thing including Mere Mortals as well as also the West Wind Web Store (which includes a light weight Business object framework as well).

Regards,

+++ Rick ---