Just one more thing I'll throw in there - for those folks who have problems watching lots of log files, generated emails, etc., I highly encourage them to look into Splunk (http://www.splunk.com) - it's a commercial tool with a free edition that basically aggregates all your logs, events, trace files, etc. and makes them available for search and analysis. It takes a little tweaking to make it work right, but it's really useful for digging through the loads of event data that gets created in a normal IT environment. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Zito Chief Scientist GridApp Systems P: 646-452-4090 mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gridapp.com -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Gus Spier Sent: Wed 5/5/2010 10:05 PM To: Jared Still Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: OEMGC and Standard Edition? My thanks to all for the input. Give us another couple of months and we'll likely see the pendulum swing the other way as we find that "point of balance" between custom scripts and OEM. V/R, Gus