We're seeing a good chunk of our customer base upgrade to 2005 to take advantage of query and analysis performance on the Web.

Intel chips run too damn hot. If you look at performance gains over the past few years, they've come from putting more transistors on a die and pumping up the clock rate. Thermodynamics has caught up with us.

passionate and committed to theater and concerned by the lack of public performance found in Taipei.

A lot of people didn't expect us to get here, but we did. Our effort has been remarkable.

We have several stories that are very important right now - politics in Germany, spectacular equity performance in Japan, and the U.S. interest rate story.

[According to PPS, one of the keys to employee satisfaction is performance-based advancement and rewards.] Workers should be treated as individual professional public servants, not as bureaucrats, ... We tend to give everyone the same raise whether they're a fantastic worker or a mediocre worker.