Digikey's shipping is amazing. (and cheap!) Plus, as you say, they have an enormous inventory - and a solid in-house search engine for filtering through it. It

Digikey's shipping is amazing. (and cheap!) Plus, as you say, they have an enormous inventory - and a solid in-house search engine for filtering through it. It's great to hear that Octopart will be indexing them. I've always liked Octopart's goals, but without Digikey on board they weren't that useful to me, except as a adhoc datasheet search engine.