Merging technologies will move wearable PCs to more people. Where today people might carry a cell phone, pager, PDA, and a laptop computer, as they merge, people will want to carry one item instead four.

They want to be able to measure the gains and know whether it's a good technology investment.

General Electric is using it in the subsidiary that makes generators. [The company wants] to put manuals online and make them available at the point of use. If you can let a technician high on a ladder behind a generator stay there rather than coming down to a desk to look at a CD-ROM, it translates to more money.

I think it's important to note that (today) we will have people greeting our customers in the parking lots and explaining some of the merger activity.

People that I've talked to today, their question seems to be: Will he quit again?

We will get a lot of attention now. It's the guys who people don't know anything about now who can make a difference.