Porting
	All Unix variants - (not heard of any it won’t build on)
	Windows 95, Windows NT, VMS
	Builds out-of-the-box
	Drivers
	ODBC, Oracle, Informix, DB2, Ingres, Solid, …
	enhancements to the DBI (inc. docs) will make it easier
	ODBC/JDBC
	Standard ways of specifying (data types, meta-data, options etc)
	and ways of doing
	The DBI won’t re-invent these wheels - but may make them easier to steer! (by offering higher-level interfaces to them).
	First is data types and meta-data
	Specifying the unspecified
	Documenting features once they’ve stabilized
	such as placeholders and bind variables