In particular Greg's strong background in sales and marketing will be valuable as we continue to expand initiatives to support our strategy.

We are putting our efforts into cost savings, and all these savings will be put into marketing and sales incentives.

We will retain... Siebel's product development and product sales and marketing teams.

The whole era of IT as a support function for marketing, finance, and sales is history.

Will that turns to sales? Maybe, maybe not, but the incentives certainly are going to help the consumer come back.

It's questionable, though, how long it will take for the Red Hat sales and marketing team to gain competence in selling an application platform, which is much further 'up the stack' than the operating system.