>>> >>>I figured this thread would have been closed by now. As we >>>all know it is all about the right tools for the right skill >>>set for the right job for the right price. You are 100% correct, Ken. Reading between the lines in Vitaliy's posts lends me to wonder whether there are forces within his organization trying to influence a koolaid-drunken wholesale leap into a Linux-based solution. I've seen that in a lot of shops. Incidentally, those are the shops that don't end up going forward with a Linunx deployment. The once that do (in my experience with our product set) are the ones that have a level headed approach to using the right tool for the right job. We generally walk out of the deals where there is brutal OS/platform religious wars because those projects never succeed. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l