My experience in this regard is surprising to me. One of my motivations for writing the serialization library and getting it accepted into boost was to add this to resume. I work as a contract software developer and I felt this would be helpful in getting more work. Eventually, I was successful in this quest and was pleased to add this to my list of projects being completed. This was expecially true due to the excruciatingly picky standards imposed by the peer review process. When talking with prospective customers, I'm please to point to the boost serialization library as a recent accomplishment. I'm amazed to discover that in only ONE single case have any of the programmers, managers, etc ever even heard of boost. This group even includes an ex head of the computer science department at a top tier university !!! When I first came upon boost, I was agog at the possibilities it opened up. The utiliy and power of the whole was blindingly obvious to to me. As I get older, I feel more and more disconnected from the rest of to programming world. I don't really have a point here - I just felt like responding. oh well. Robert Ramey