We really need it because Microsoft keeps releasing sloppier and sloppier software that needs a faster and faster machine. The speed is crazy.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

This software captures all the details of what their needs are. It's really the starting point of the whole development process for a new application.

China Unicom's CDMA network needs only a software upgrade to become CDMA2000. It takes a few months to do.

The software business is increasingly important for Sun. I do anticipate they'll continue to make acquisitions there. That needs to be part of the strategy.

Neither traditional ERP applications nor project planning software is designed to meet these needs. Making low-volume prototypes and managing a complex array of suppliers, designers, and marketing initiatives requires software that can link all these activities together within a project planning framework.