Kevin has demonstrated a capacity for managing growth which will ensure the advancement of our key initiatives, and I believe he will provide significant leadership as he succeeds Bill.

The market's growth will involve major shifts in share among the OS platforms. The winners will be Microsoft and Linux.

We believe we will see sequential revenue growth in semiconductors during the first quarter of 2000.

A recovery of growth to around trend in the first half of 2006 will not threaten interest rates in either direction.

My team and I are excited about the growth potential for both companies that this engineering partnership will allow. We believe that the advantages of a strong group, especially one with world-class engineering and electronics manufacturing operations, will increase our ability to bring new and innovative products to our global customer base. Bringing these two together under one roof will allow us numerous opportunities to help our customers grow profitable businesses.

It creates two classes of citizens: one who lives outside growth areas and those who live in a growth area. It's a distinction in class of citizens, which I objected to,