@lori @idlestate I had completely forgotten about pets.com ...

I remember specifically what I was working on in that time frame, cause it was pretty cool even if the startup doing it failed... Universal DB drivers w/ on the fly syntax translation.

Yeah, sure, it had some bugs... Like actually returning all the rows in a count query on Informix and then actually counting the rows and returning the result.. But.. The idea was cool, and there was some sweet distributed logic/architecture for it.