Thanks for the thorough overview.
Sounds like the thing to look for is probably an ADO class, then. That should cover the bases, at any rate.
I've looked at the Express versions, and probably will play with them more, but I'm kinda waiting for them to "pull it out" and make a decision (political stuff involved there).
I'm not especially worried that I can't learn the stuff. When I think about starting over, and all the stuff that there will be to learn, it sometimes gets to me a bit. But then I remind myself of how gradually I learned all that I know about the stuff I do now, and that LotusScript and VBScript are close cousins in the first place, and calm back down. Right now I'm mostly disgusted about the delay while they get around to making a stinking decision, but there's no help for that.
