You do, of course, realize that they were switching from a proprietary flavor of *nix and not from a MS platform, right?? Also, IMO anyone who believes that TCO for linux is less than Windows is completely insane. Eric J. Smith

Not to mention we are talking about alpha quality software here. It has been stated, by Microsoft, that load time is an issue and is being fixed. Their stated goal is to equal the performance of VB6. From a web development standpoint, the new Visual Studio is unbelievable. I am so anxious to get started with this stuff in the real world. ASP based applications should receive a huge performance increase. The http://www.ibuyspy.com/ site has been up and running for 60+ days, recieved over a million visitors and hasn't had one problem. From my perspective, that is extremely impressive considering it's an alpha. P.S. We should be seeing a beta 1 release towards the end of October