Right after IBM bought Sequent in 1998, I was invited to speak at IBM Partnerworld. I flew in for the session, and found out that they put my presentation about application partitioning with Oracle into an AS400 track. I had 3 people sit in even after I told them this was not AS400 related. They never asked any questions. I am convinced to this day that they didn't speak english either. I don't think that presentation made them any happier than it made me. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l