We have a new class of software that really is about information integration.

We have over 250 people working to either recruit or enable applications for the DB2 platform. Much of that work -- maybe 80 percent -- is on the NT platform.

Will the native XML database support replace the relational database? The answer is no,

The value of this is it's the next step beyond a federated database.

Most software makers reveal for free the sort of information Microsoft is being ordered to license, because anyone not in a monopoly situation has every interest in making their software as widely available as possible.

The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik