As larger and larger companies that are focussed on other types of products and services gobble up software companies, we will see more and more of this happening. Because these companies are concerned with their bottom line, and EXPECT certain profit margins from their subsidiary companies. If that is the expectation of these large mergers, and we the consumer are the ones getting burnt in the fallout from these acerebral business plans and analogies on the part of executives and consultants; then shouldn't WE the CONSUMER hold software companies and developers, to the same standards of Consumer Satisfaction as everything else? shrug I just had to get that off my chest hee hee :) Catch Ya Rendering! waves