Can I suggest you place your implementation into the open source community under the license of your choice? Btw, I hear you and have been in the same situation more than once. -Steve http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog

Here's my $0.02 regarding the "mounting pile": http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/IsMicrosoftExpandingTheAPIWar.aspx -Steve Blog: http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SteveTrefethensWeblog

Dewm, I'd be interested to know the features you're missing. Feel free to shoot me an email and strefethen at codegear dot com. Also fwiw, there will be a new version of C++Builder coming out in the next few weeks. -Steve R&D Staff Engineer CodeGear from Borland http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/