Icahn is going to have to be very persuasive with shareholders for those holders to abandon the company.

The closest thing to [strong-arm tactics] I've heard about is that sometimes a company may want to run a third-party product, and Microsoft says that if they do, it won't support the platform. Is it possible Microsoft does this? Sure.

We've shifted from being a Microsoft-centric company to more of an IBM- and open-systems-centric company. We made the decision prior to the software code leak, and it had nothing to do with that. That's under federal investigation.

We would be delighted to hear from any Siebel employee that would like to join our company that meets our rigorous standard for excellence and dedication to customer success,

The company clearly benefited from the sale of the handset and infrastructure businesses in 1999. The remaining segments offer much better profitability.

I think every major casino company wants to get into online gaming but without access to the U.S. market it becomes a costly venture.