Hi, Well I was willing to take you seriously untill the "GNU terrorists" remark... Developing free software is not an Anti-American activity, (more's the pity :) I work at a bank, they asked me for my "patch policy" in the third technical interview I had, it was an open question, but there was no doubt as to what the "correct" (meaning, "what they wanted to hear") answer was. That answer being, "no I don't install everything that arrives on the patch CD every month" Though when you've only got 13 servers and 20 workstations you can probably afford the time, when you step up into the big leagues you'll find there are never enough hours in the day. Hell, the production, prelife, and development machines for our monitoring system alone number more than that. Although on a personal note, I would agree with you that Linux isn't enterprise ready yet. I certainly wouldn't roll it out into production any more than I would a Microsoft solution. later jb