It's a huge move for us. Since we became a nonprofit, we've been steadily expanding our programming, offering fellowships, making the organization do much more programmatically. But we've been limited by our space.

We were next to the train tracks in Union Square, in this small loft space. A lot of people, especially from the suburbs, thought it was kind of a sketchy area. It's so industrial, there's nothing going on there at night.

This opens up a myriad of possibilities for us to develop programming that we have never heretofore been able to offer, so it's a very exciting juncture for us. It's the threshold of a new day for us.

I think it is important for them to say what they feel and I think it is important for us to say what we feel.

All of us who attended the meeting -- including Microsoft -- unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors, and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished,

The pitiful thing here is that insurance companies are trying to stiff us.