FBA wrote: I'm not sure why it should be surprising -- snarfing up potential competitors is almost always a rational business tactic. What doesn't make sense is why they assigned Cobalt such a large valuation. What I've always found more puzzling is x86 Solaris. Our customers (mostly Wall Street types these days) are still spooked by Open Source stuff, but don't care what it says on the front of the box. So we buy Penguins, load x86 Solaris and rack 'em up for a fraction of the cost (and as well as a _vastly_ better price/performance figure) of, say, 420Rs. -- Chris Kennedy chris(a)mainecoon.com http://www.mainecoon.com PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97