When I left on Aug. 14 [2001], I thought the financial reports accurately represented the financial [state] of the company.

The company is in great shape.

I'd spent my entire career with a publicly traded company, ... As Lotus became a less independent company, my thought was that my true skills would get less of a workout. This late in my career wasn't the time to be running a lab for IBM.

It's really a question of figuring out what makes sense.

I think they have purposely not looked at facts they should have looked at to come to a balanced and accurate conclusion.

I'm not sure deals of that size would come to my attention. $125 million out of an annual calendar of $22 billion is hardly something that you would notice.