As observers, it would be foolish not to see challenges.

They got their business in order and made some good bets in technologies.

The commercial success of the next generation of media rich services hinges on the operators' ability to deploy best in class service building blocks. This partnership between BEA and IP Unity is designed to offer operators a proven set of pre- integrated building blocks to deliver blended multimedia services across any type of network environment.

British Airways is going to have to focus more and more of its activity on the long-haul markets. And as such, the greater share of their overall profitability will be generated at the North Atlantic market.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And are probably below it yourself.

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.