We have 8I spatial up and running. The software is great, but two projects have just bogged down on ORACLE licensing. These customers have large numbers of concurrent multi-server ORACLE licences. We need to add the spatial option for a small number of named users (operating in their own ORACLE instance) without impacting on other corporate arrangement. That appears to be very difficult. Triggering a whole of corporation licence re negotiation is a pretty big hurdle for a small project trying to get some runs on the board. I am not sure whether our current hick-ups are because spatial is a bit new for the Australian ORACLE office, or if we have fallen in a hole in the new licensing policy.. I would love to hear from MapInfo operators in other geographys (especially North America) who have worked through adding the spatial option to existing ORACLE licenses. Thanks.... Ken Moule Exa-Min Resource Industry Consultants 2nd Floor, 143 Charlotte Street, BRISBANE PO Box 12020, Elizabeth Street Q 4002 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 7 32100741 Fax: +61 7 32100738 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.geobasemap.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]