http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/2001/119957_05-07-2001.html Incidentally, the end of the article is FUBARed. As an unpaid service to Network World here is how the article ends: "They can look at the application and the platform and tell you where things should be because of the repetition of what they see." Mercury Interactive sells two Web site tesing services: Active-Watch for monitoring Web site performance over the Internet and Activetest for load-testing Web sites. Mercury Interactive's study was based on the firm's ActiveTest customers. Mercury: www-heva.mercuryinteractive.com -Hank