In the first quarter of 2000, eBay achieved unprecedented financial and operational success. The company is firing on all cylinders as it expands to become a truly global trading platform.

The more people that we can expose to [the eBay] experience the faster, the better off the company is going to be,

We'll see which one of those works for us and is cost-effective and that's how we'll refine our marketing mix going forward,

They have a track record of success, ... And if any company could bring a new game franchise to success in the market, they would be it.

The market cap is just a validation of the success the company has had in addressing its legacy issues and diversifying away from a traditionally poor-performing worker-comp business to other lines of business that generate a better rate of return.

We continue to believe that no company is better positioned to benefit from the success of PlayStation 2 and the overall expansion of the gaming space as move into a new platform cycle than Electronic Arts.