Re: OOP/OOD Philosophy

> The vendor raised the licensing rate and they
> simply could not make money with the product.

There are many free RDBMS availible.

> The team wished that they could break the dependencies on the vendor

Just keep to ANSI SQL and you will be able to change database vendor at
any time. The applications I currently work with, are database vendor
independent without separating the database schema from the GUI or
"business" logic. Using ANSI SQL the database schema are already
separated from the database vendor.

Fredrik Bertilsson
http://butler.sourceforge.net

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