My take on this is that M$ offers 'support', but then can't cut it and then offers the supportee a MS solution which is guaranteed to work the way the client wants. M$ will no doubt charge for the support and if the cost of the 'guarenteed to work' solution comes up they will just say that it is a once off cost and you won't need to pay for support again ie because it is a M$ product you will get 5 free support calls for the life of the software. This is my bet and I shivered with fear when I read the quote about keeping your enemies closer. Easiest way to get rid of the compettion is to buy them instead of all that pesky patent stuff. The only bonus for Novell is perhaps the M$ advertising engine. Keep the penguin words rolling out and your beaks high. H -- #!/bin/bash echo "=================================================================" echo "Using unpatched SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla 1.7.2" echo "Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org" uptime echo "================================================================="