Dear all, am supposed to review our present netowrk and infrastructure faclites provided for our development team size of nearly 100-150 oracle profesionals. can some of you inform me what are the different types of network faciliteis provided, how the access to internet being monitored without affecting the on-going development work,especially if development platform is microsoft. at this moment we have 2 production database server, 1 qc database server, 1 production application server along with developer suite.. one mail server these all are linux server developers and testers use 6i, 9i oracle forms and ms office for their work. 6i will be used for a short period say 2/3 months or only for support, everybody will be moving to 9i only apart from this we have a PDC plus dot net server which is NT a machine. we want to give access to intenet based on the nature of work..so what type of network we should use.. I want to know how the access and security policies used at various development centers...i do not have that much indepth knowledge about this.. kindly help..I will appreciate every view. Good Luck..Subodh Deshpande =============================================== Experience Is Knowledge Wisdom Is Philosophy ============================================== -- _______________________________________________ NEW! Lycos Dating Search. The only place to search multiple dating sites at once. http://datingsearch.lycos.com