My gut feeling is they have no intention of operating supermarkets long-term. I think they want to preserve it the best they can while they're in the process of liquidating.

Most of the customers we see at conferences seem to have older systems and no intention of upgrading to the hardware requirements they would need to do that. They tend to build outward with their own Windows boxes.

[Baltimore said his intention to retire as president of the Pasadena-based university was not prompted by any health problem, budget deficit or management disagreements, but rather a sense that he had accomplished his goals as an administrator.] Caltech is a wonderful place, the best place to do science I have ever seen, ... I will have done what I can do [as president], and it is time for somebody else to be thinking about it. I have a fairly extensive life in science and in business that I will pursue.

But also Ray's empire [his nightclub] is under threat. It's losing money. I know Louis's intention in the third part of the trilogy deals with notion of empire even more fully.

I don't want you to get the impression we strong-armed them. We just said it would not be a good career move.

This is still pretty new and I haven't seen retailer results. But if it was a really successful program, more retailers would open them and the larger players would open a lot more.