If every state follows a similar tack, maybe we're onto something and Microsoft's Open XML strategy may not be a great idea. But we're not seeing that. Microsoft has not backed down and is committed to using Open XML for its forthcoming Office versions.

It exists in utopia. In reality, there's no such things as the 'ultimate' anything. The only way to achieve it is in the lab, and even then, that's probably not even realistic.

Something tells me there are deeper pockets south of the border.

I think it's very good for RIM and shows a real hesitance on the part of Judge Spencer to make a decision before the USPTO has reached a final decision on the remaining patents.

Quite frankly, you look at the numbers, and you realize there has to be something more for eBay to buy into. There's significant risk because the cash is not there now.

IBM is positioning itself to be the vendor of choice when the open-standards strategy manifests itself and Massachusetts divests itself of closed-standard technologies, ... Microsoft now has viable competition on the end user's desktop, whatever that desktop looks like over the next few years. IBM has served notice that it won't go down without a fight.