Another thing to consider when buying 'cloud computing' is data ownership. If your data is on someone else's machine, do you really own it? Posession *is* 9/10ths of the law after all. If your data isn't really sensitive, and is easily replicable, then this isn't much of a concern. If you have some valuable/sensitive data, you should keep your property rights and security in mind. There may be some clauses buried in the agreements which make data ownership less clear-cut than you might like. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com