one example. i've spent the past week going thru training on Catia V5. V5 uses a mono part concept. there are several different commercial vendors that supply software to manage the mono part models into usable assy and install drawings. On Wednesday 14 May 2003 23:45, you wrote: > I think the proper response is an absolute "it depends" > > How do we know what apps will be developed? > > How do we know that someone who has a better/faster way to process the data > will be willing to provide it as open source? > > How do we know a lot of things? Using SQL as a transfer method provide > another way to get the data and in some cases it will be better (even if > we're only talking about counting how many doors are used). > > As stated, it will also open up the possibility of using other db backends > (some places are stuck on Oracle for instance) -- Oh i've slipped the surly bonds of DOS and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ //www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux