Al is a great guy, he leads an extraordinarily important company with an amazing technology, but they have some people issues to work through, ... I wish them all the luck in the world.

I'd spent my entire career with a publicly traded company, ... As Lotus became a less independent company, my thought was that my true skills would get less of a workout. This late in my career wasn't the time to be running a lab for IBM.

[While the U.S. president has an e-mail address and favors preventing taxation of Internet commerce, the U.S. government has, in fact, hurt the industry by imposing] brain-dead legislation on privacy and the export of encryption, ... And outside of the U.S., I worry about taxation [of Internet commerce]. It's logical to assume that governments will want a piece of the action.

The OSD specification is a tremendous benefit to organizations seeking to provide a standards-based solution for online software distribution,

All of our Web-based usage has been about asynchronous communication. We will move by the end of this year to a concurrent model,

It's not just about business consequences. There are human and social consequences as well.