mergeant can be considered as an extension of the libgda project. Its aims are the same: to provide universal data source access for client applications, as well as development tools and libraries for doing so. mergeant; is an extension to libgda; because it adds support to the architecture for the GNOME project. mergeant was formed by merging components from gnome-db and gASQL. WWW: http://www.gnome-db.org/