It's a tougher job, with more groups competing for their time, more lobbyists to make their cases, and citizens expect constituent services. More is expected of a legislature today than 30 years ago.

They're all in the same boat, and if the boat sinks, they may not go under, but they're going to have to be treading water for awhile in the minority.

We tried twice. The first time, results were lacking.

Extol has a platform that can literally cut the time required to integrate these applications by literally 50 percent to 90 percent. I've got people in your organization with a mentality oriented toward manual coding. Until you get that monkey off your back, it's going to limit your business opportunities.

The Apple IIc, with its 128KB of RAM, 125KB floppy drive, word processor, and spreadsheet application, did everything I could imagine a computer doing at the time.

I told him I'd need to take some time to make some decisions, and he was fine with that. I'd like to stay on the field if I can. I've heard from a lot of people in baseball wishing me the best, but I don't have any offers yet.