hi,
Thanks for the reply.

Its been suggested that it is also a symptom of an oracle.exe having a problem spawning additional threads. Apparently, Oracle on NT has a limit on the number of threads that can be spawned and this number is 800. One solution it to implement MTS but I'm not sure the application can deal with that...if this is the case and the thread limit is hard set then we are in trouble.

If anyone has any ideas...keep em coming