> > Needless to say, I strongly disagree with this model. > I take it you are not a customer of Oracle then Dale ;-) Like it or not William Gates III will adopt the subscription model as Larry Elison has shown this model to be better at money generation. Microsoft always "innovates" by using other peoples better ideas. Regards Chris Carr -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body