Walter and I had a conversation with a classmate of mine who now works for VMWare, Steve Strassman. He had an interesting analogy between what SoaS does and the VM value proposition for servers. Go into a large company and they have a big server room with probably over a million dollars in hardware. They have different OSes running different Apps all put in at different times with different specs. Very complicated. Very brittle, very expensive to maintain, very expensive to upgrade. Put in VMware and you make all that old hardware look like one huge mainframe computer, you can run your apps anywhere, add hardware, take out old stuff, bring boxes down for maintenance etc. all much more easily. We do the same thing for schools. They have all this hardware, different OSes, different specs. We make it all useful, all look the same to the user, and massively decrease maintenance complexity. Someone else today used the words "Computer Compost" (Paul Flint from VT where they have lots of compost ;). I kinda like that phrase. -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax