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These are presentations from Symfony 2010 Day 1 (I’d name it “Doctrine” day).
Doctrine 2 – Not The Same Old Php Orm Very good introduction to next doctrine version (will be supported for only php 5.3 though, rewritten and improved Doctrine Query Language). I recommend to watch these slides before make decision about using [...]

As we announced in our previous post we’ve decided to start using Doctrine instead of Propel.
The first steps in this direction are not about starting the new project though. We would like to see how simple would be to replace Propel with Doctrine in very simple project (like 2-3 simple DB tables).
It’s good that this [...]

Eventually, when Doctrine is officially selected as default ORM for symfony 1.3 we’ve decided that it’s time to use Doctrine. We knew all Doctrine’s advantages before but we used Propel from the very beginning of symfony and it’s actually sad to understand that Propel lost this war.
The biggest reason why it’s not fun to stop [...]

Pretty usefull article:
http://www.phpcult.com/blog/2009/08/talking-to-multiple-databases-with-symfony-1-2/
It’s only for propel though, interesting if similar approach would work for doctrine as well.
Here is the reason why Vidyut Luther had to use multiple databases:
I can’t just extend the existing application for reasons we don’t need to get into, but I do need to interface with the data, since the existing app [...]