Interesting article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20021023/bs_nf/19752 Currently IMAGE does phenomenal amounts of heavy lifting. Should we succeed in making IMAGE open source, we'll have to educate database experts like Mr. Claybrook. He makes a good point in his statement about the difficulty of switching once you've made substantial investments in a database. Excerpt: 'Claybrook also said it is difficult for open source products to gain ground in the market for large, mission-critical applications in major enterprises. "When it gets down to serious, big-time database uses, I don't know of any open source [database] that comes close to Oracle or DB2," he said. He added that once companies establish a large database with a costly proprietary system, it is hard to abandon that investment. "If you've been using Oracle for 10 years, it's damn hard to switch out," he said.' Frank Gribbin Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *