You might want to read these articles before you make any judgments in favor of hailstorm. They are a bit long (especially the second one), but well written and informative. http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/05/30/hailstorm.html http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm Dave On Thursday 31 May 2001 08:02, thus spake Joshua Jore: > Heh. I think you're crazy. Or at least from my corporatist perspective, > it's damn unlikely to switch OS platforms on anything beyond a seismic > shift. I think MS is too PR savvy to shoot themselves in the foot that > badly. Witness Hailstorm. That is some pretty neat technology. It just > happens to leave the keys to the kingdom in MS's hand. If it turns out > that really matters to the joe-user/joe-corporatist then maybe that's a > bad move. If it doesn't rain on those users too much then it's not *too* > bad. > > Josh > -- "Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit. (No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.