It sets up sort of a three-company race toward who's going to control the environment where software plays out,

Overall, the macro-environment was somewhat challenging for software vendors in the third quarter, but we are expecting to see in-line quarters from most of the companies.

If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software, ... Otherwise there's no incentive for companies to deal with this on their own. We make it expensive for the companies that get caught.

We believe we're the first software company to do this.

IBM has decided that being a company committed to open standards, open document formats and free software means ultimately reassessing the patent process and its role in your relationship to your customers,

It just stunned me that someone would actually think of putting their data off-site. I'm a software company guy. It just seemed profane.