Hi, As far as I understand from some research there are the following options for connecting Progress to Oracle: - use progress gateway for oracle - use heterogenous services from oracle with odbc - use jdbc with jave stored procedures First options is not really my favourite because I want Oracle to be leading in the exchange of data, it has to extracted from progress to oracle. I understand for the first two options that there are stability problems. The thirth options I cannot find any experiences. Is there anybody who can shed some light about do's and don't on this? Details: HP-UX 11.11 Oracle 9.2.0.6 Progress 8 Windows 2003 Tnx in advance Jeroen