They haven't been chasing the same customers, which can be a challenge. It's good in that it opens up opportunities, but at same time, they haven't been selling to same customer.

We find an issue with some of them, but as long as they know the role of the solution and the directions are out there and defined, we all can play nice in the same sandbox.

The good news for enterprises is that, in many cases, a deal could mean that a mature support organization will be available for the project. But some of these deals will be bad if the software company is simply buying out a potential competitor to get access to the user base or to kill off the project.

The original challenge allowed any users to have local accounts to access the machine via SSH. This is an important distinction, because if you have local -- or physical -- access to a computer, you have a very distinct leg-up in terms of the ability to escalate your privileges.

They really stepped up to the challenge tonight. They wrestled for each other.

He was a (junior varsity) wrestler until about two weeks ago. He rose to the challenge.