Baan with Universe Designer

Has anyone successfully built a Universe against a Baan database? We are looking at the possibility either using a Baan driver for Universe Designer (if this exists) or connecting to the Oracle system underneath.
Any help is much appreciated!
Thx
James

No idea but some things to check:
- Are you running some other application which might be using the Designer SDK on your machine?
- If you launch Designer and leave it there for 5 minutes without doing anything does the error comes up
--> some background agent might be interfering? Or is it triggered only if you actually work with Designer?
- What is the title of the popup window (Designer.exe or is it a Window system message error?)
Regards
PPaolo

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>
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>
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