From the beginning, there was going to be a reshuffling of the deck and we were going to be playing lot of young kids. I knew we might struggle early, but if we could develop as we went, we might be a good team come tournament time. Based on the way we've played the last couple of weeks, I think we've done that.

I think we'll see the first system introductions (using the chip sets) during October, then another wave in the beginning part of next year.

You want to own a stock at the beginning of a product cycle,

[So is IBM's announcement the beginning of the shift to on-demand computing? Some say absolutely:] We're on the tip of a change on the order of magnitude of [the beginning of] the client server in late '80s, ... Our estimates are that outsourcing and on-demand computing will cut IT costs [buying and operating] in half over the next five years.

These tenant announcements are just the beginning of the many great things still to come at the North Shore. We will be making several additional significant announcements in the weeks and months ahead.

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