Thanks Tom! That was interesting by itself ... but the sidenote about PHP accelerators really surprised me. I hadn't heard of those before. Would anybody using ionCube or one of the other alternatives care to share their experience? Do they work? When do they work best? How do they work? Fun stuff! Thanks, RonL. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Dell'Aringa [mailto:pixelmech at yahoo.com] In case you have not heard: Yahoo! is moving to PHP. http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm