Hi, I am developing, in my spare time, a database (InterBase) for e-commerce applications; it is completely managed by Stored Procedures, triggers, generators, exception... so no SQL statements are sent to the database but only parameters. The database will be open and free, but I don't like to release it before it is completely finished. I think now with IOWA we could have an ideal combination for e-commerce applications. Thank you again to Matz for the Ruby module to access to InterBase which really works fine. Jilani ps. Till now, I have developed all the database and nearly 50% of the stored procedures and triggers. The part already done works fine. If there is interest in it I will accelerate the development.