[davidw]

I'm sometimes amazed at just how antiquated California is.

I remember taking the DMV test there, and it was all pencil and paper stuff, and then it took something like a month to get the license.

In Oregon, it was all computer-screen driven, and licenses were issued in very short order.

The business name search is all on-line in Oregon, as is all filing, at least for LLC's. http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.login