We get pushed very hard by our development community in this area but we think that we're just scratching the surface with what can be built. The overall business benefit is around linking projects more closely together and allowing people to move around information a lot more intelligently.

SIMPLE is not a mature protocol at this point, so we've taken a snapshot and implemented against that. As we make subsequent releases, we will be looking to make sure we are absolutely compliant to the standard.

We are absolutely committed to being SIMPLE compliant.

Enterprise instant-messaging activity is something that we're seeing greater pick up of in the market. We believe that IM will be as prevalent as e-mail in most corporations within the next four to five years.

We were visited by whites, who always found coming into the black community to be interesting. Some even found it exotic. They knew that some of our restaurants were superior to their own. One of the interesting things is that whites discriminated against blacks. Blacks never discriminated against whites, and so they were always welcome.

I think this is going to be an extremely enjoyable event and something totally different for our community.