Hi again, It's so hard to express sarcasm without audible intonation. But my point was, we don't need a lot of bells and whistles. We do need something that is stable and dependable and will get the work done. I don't want the latest 3rd party applications for the gee whiz factor (although that's so cool isn't it), I want them because the old NT versions don't work exactly right (or the same) when installed on XP. The vendors don't test the old versions with XP, and Foxboro seems willing to continue to use them until something major breaks. You can't build a control system based on exceptions, and workarounds. Come on NT4.0 didn't even come with a disk defragmentation tool. After 3 or 4 years of display changes and historian work, performance starts to really degrade. Am I happy with Solaris 2.5.1? No, I'd like to get the security improvements that come with Solaris 8, or 9 or 10 even. Still, it's a pretty stable OS. I have added bash and perl which come native on the newer versions of Solaris. But I have a pretty high degree of confidence that I can take a shell script, or perl program, or C program and port it to a newer version of Solaris with a recompile and re-link most of the time. I don't even know if my existing programs will even run if I add a service pack from Microsoft. This transition is very hard for any company to do well. Foxboro is not that different from all of the others. But if IACC is supposed to make me want to go with windows, I better be able to run my script files and have good networking capabilities too. And Bo, it can't reboot much either! Regards, David "Quote me as saying I was misquoted." Groucho Marx _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave