After the subject video conference, John Painter said: >The second point was that the MB Foster collaboration >for a 32 bit ODBC driver will not be available till August or so. As expected, Birket followed up with: >John - >Our DataExpress product is shipping, including the 32 bit and 16 bit >drivers and lots of Value added stuff - KSAM,MPE,Powerhouse Dictionary >access, the ability to do Remote Procedure calls ... .. BTW, I really do not mean to imply that there is anything wrong with that once in awhile. From everything I hear M.B. Foster provides and supports a quality product.. However......... IMHO HP was already lagging the industry by not having a 32-bit ODBC driver for Image/SQL by IPROF 1996. As late as HP World - Anaheim the best guess on ODBC Link/SE from HP was I believe by first quarter of CY 1997 (confess I don't have time to dig up all my records right now). If August 1997 is actually what we are now looking at for delivery of 32-bit ODBC from HP, I would respectfully ask and suggest that HP and/or M.B. Foster should at least post some information to 3000-L as to why there is another significant delay in the delivery of ODBC Link/SE, and give the user base some indication of how "solid" we can expect the "August or so" projection to be. I believe M.B. Foster has been shipping their full in-house ODBC Link product with the most if not all of the goodies Birket describes above since February of 1996. I think it is a fair question for users to wonder why it takes 18 months to separate out just the 32-bit ODBC part of that..... Ken Sletten SIGIMAGE Chair