It had a significant impact on our ability to communicate and function.

With the Internet and the ability to download onto portable devices, what reps are able to do marketing-wise to expose music is completely unlimited by the imagination. You can use anything to turn people on to music.

It's our goal to provide our customers with the ability to find, discover, and buy anything they want on the Internet, and that includes financial services. Customers have been buying books about personal finance, retirement, colleges, and so forth. So this is a natural extension.

I think Mr. Corrigan was a little to close to his baby and did not have the ability to make the hard decisions necessary to focus on the right products.

You have to give them credit for their ability to check and they knocked us off the puck and they turned over a lot of pucks. But at the same time we were turning the pucks over and it just seems like we never settled into our game even from the outset we didn't settle into out game. But I think you give them credit for giving us a little bit of a lesson.

Technology shifts are not unusual in this business, but what sets Cabletron apart is our ability to anticipate changing customer requirements.