Hey Skunks- The subject was intentional dramatic, I don't actually forsee Opera Unite (http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10266157-12.html) performing some magical Cloud Dispersion in the future, but being a particularly Cloud-Wary skunk (is anyone else?) I am quite pleased at recent developments in Norway. What do I see as potential for Unite in Kenya? Well, it can easily fill a gap I am guessing will occur in terms of the construction of data centres and more Hosting Providers who take advantage of our lovely SEACOM. Given our natural tendency to want to see results immediately, this could be a hybrid solution to demonstrating the potentials of the Internet to Kenyans who are still wary or have never seen it before without massive overhead. I hate massive overhead (does anyone else?). This is not to mention the increase in perfectly legal file sharing that could occur finally for all of our fledgling musicians! How many times have we all used the example of the Internet making nobodies somebodies out in the rural areas. With this simple file sharing, it could be even more of a possibility. And teaching web technologies! WoooHooo. No more need for server management. Even in the West, not all Web Designers are Sys Admins, and some of them wouldn't know how to configure say PHP or Apache if their life depended on it. But now they don't have to! Finally, it gives a Rapid Application Development and Testing cycle to Web Apps. Prototype with friends, and expand slowly, without needing to pay for hosting and domain names! Then, if your Web App suceeds, move it into its own house and stop chewing bandwidth. My only concern is that it appears to need to be able to contact opera servers for domain resolution. No good for intranet based schools like mine. I guess its just me and my Engarde Server Linux install for the weekend so my students can run intranet blogs. Thoughts? Cheers! -- jonathan mclean us peace corps volunteer ict specialist mtongwe, kenya