I actually like the idea of putting the "Ethics do not apply" answer on the form. It lets you know who to either give remedial ethics training to or, more appropriately, who to fire.

If one were to assume that the devs/architects were competent (a stretch, I know) then I could see doing webservice calls as things get are then easy to reuse in other places. Of course without knowing how likely these bits are to be reused we can't know how much of a WTF building for that would...

[quote user="Cassidy"] [quote user="locallunatic"]I guess doing crap like that is why everyone rags on Oracle, isn't it?[/quote] It's not the only reason. You want more ? [/quote] I realize that there is a reason for Oracle to have it's special spot of hate, I just didn't...