Luis, I installed a RAID5 configuration on my Q6600 box, 3x500GB drives. I did not think much of it until one of the drives failed. Once the drive removed and sent for repair, I was still able to turn on the computer and work in "degraded mode". Once the new drive came back, I installed it and it rebuilt. Now, what do I think about raid5 ? cheaper than RAID 1. Much better than RAID 0, actually, still wonder why they call that one "RAID". Regards JFG

What would you do if... The software company your organization is doing business with sells you software to install in hundreads of workstations, and the only way to activate the software on each of the workstation requires a cumbersome manual process done on each of those workstations (install and upgrade), that's right, no SMS possible. Negociations are made with the software company, suggestions are made in regards to usage control tools (licensing server and such), tight auditing, etc. but the software company won't budge. I have been a witness to such a behavior. The customer is currently abiding by the software company rule, but everybody involved with this given software company is really mad at them. Will the organization recommend that software company to other organizations around them ? I am not advocating cracking software, but, some behavior seen with some software companies could potentially set the ground to hiliting this choice as a means to releaving the software maintenance process in a large organization.

If you want to integrate svn with VS.NET. You may want to give http://www.pushok.com/soft\_svn.php a try. I have used the CVS flavor of this plugin and have been extremely satisfied with it. Saddly, there is a cost to it, about $25 per seat, but this is reasonnable.