I read an article from SearchDatabase about an English company taking a world wide poll about the US Presidential elections and you are allowed to vote for the candidate of choice. www.globalvote2004.org Obviously they could not be to serious or they would have used Oracle as the Application and web server. The connection fails with a mysql_connect() warning.Too many connections. This does not cast a good light on MySQL especially after reading about Oracle and MySQL starting to squeeze MS SQL in the market place. Ron -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l