JFYI. ESRI File Geodatabase (*.gdb) API for Window and Linux now. If I understand it correctly, we can read and write FGDB (*.gdb) using this API. http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/geodatabase/archive/2011/02/11/File-geodatabase-API-Beta-2-now-available-for-Linux.aspx Any plans to support it in QGIS 2.0? Noli