Thanks for your reply. You're correct about SSIS. I used that tool for Business Intelligence or datawarehousing projects. I was looking tie that tool and use bots in perl to pull down certain publicly available data from websites of interest. Later I want to do some data mining on them. I can achieve something similar in a C# .NET desktop application... I just wanted to compare the time cost and feature benefits w/ perl bots. Have I clarified myself? :)