It will be hard for our management team to select a starting eleven,

Both sides will be desperate to gain a psychological edge because we could meet in a few weeks in the Scottish Qualifying Cup.

Smart hasn't developed as planned, and it's no secret the two sets of management didn't always see eye to eye

Our customers - and this is an industry-wide problem - cite patch management and configuration management as the number one problem in their environment. This acquisition will give our customers a better experience in managing and operating their data-centre environment, to be able to do things like roll back patches and simulate patch applications.

Everything in the electronics industry is getting more complicated, and the data management problems are truly enormous. What's needed are tools that provide a framework to facilitate the internal custom development of products for a variety of design and manufacturing processes, throughout a product's life cycle.

[Microsoft has] built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, ... That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.