> I believe the name is a one up on Tera-data (exa vs tera) Two up -- don't forget the lowly peta! Unscientific kneejerk Google searching seems to find "older" pages referencing "petadata", but "exadata" seem to be within the past day (go figure). Maybe petadata was already taken or just not futuristic enough... Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l