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Scoble links to a demo of the Kinzan demo. I've had a look, and yes - it's a clone of PARTS. These sorts of things don't scale worth a darn. Not to mention that - even in the simple demo Kinzan has constructed - making the same alterations in a text pane would likely have taken far less time and effort. These things are eye candy, and project managers tend to be awed by them. Until, that is, they have a moderately complex application built with the connection tool that simply cannot be understood any longer. I've got customers who went down that road years ago, and wish they hadn't....