We've invested heavily in Research and Development to create 'on demand' technologies that will change the way IT is delivered. J.P. Morgan Chase will be receiving a continuous infusion of technology and business process innovations from IBM.

This agreement will strengthen our ability to meet customers' e-sourcing needs, including basic co-location, fully outsourced Web hosting, and everything in between.

Creating a single capability that fuses business and process insight with information technology provides the unique advantage our clients are reaching out for. This is an exceptionally good fit -- both strategically and culturally. Our businesses complement each other and we speak the same language.

It creates market incentives that will change how consumers see software.

We decided last night after we had done some research on [La Puente] that we wanted to make their guards feel the pressure.

I'm just hoping that people will go into it with an open mind. We're not trying to change people's opinions but show a wide range of opinions on this issue.