... they must be potheads too! This article (http://h71033.www7.hp.com/object/CONTAIRSS.html) on the hp website explains that Continental Airlines uses a new NonStop system for "ticket reissue, reporting, and security initiative implementation." Under the "Putting Myths to Rest" heading, one can read: "Continental uses a NonStop S86000 server for production and a NonStop S74000 server for development. "Most of our developers are basically Microsoft® and UNIX® system programmers," noted Wang. "When we acquired the NonStop system, some people had heard that it was closed, proprietary, and difficult to learn. But in fact, we were able to produce a mission-critical enterprise system in just six months that's already saving Continental money--all thanks to the open development environment of the NonStop platform." Development in Continental's Technology Group is typically done using Java^(TM) software *on Linux* and Windows machines. Once the application is built, it is uploaded to the NonStop system." Isn't that rather funny considering the Hanks comments... fx -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux http://www.nibz.org