Who will blink first? http://www.technewsworld.com/story/news/37432.html "Software vendors have proceeded cautiously on the core question, with rivals IBM, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and others waiting to see how the others approach the issue, partly to learn what works and partly to have the opportunity to counter." "As servers with dual-core processors come closer to hitting the market, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft announced today it will not base its per-processor software licensing charges on the number of cores in a chip, sticking to the traditional price per processor, regardless of its number of cores." RAC on a chip? Paul -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l