What does "FP underpinnings for scalability" mean? I said the server. I'm talking about the server (e.g., kcb,kcr,etc etc etc). If you have an app that consists of endless PL/SQL loop of computations on a single BINARY_FLOAT datatype in a single row, then FPU would be of interest. The engine is not the place to do application fp ops. Be glad: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829444 So, to answer the the original post, the T2000 scalability RE fpu will not cause a database scalability problem. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l