One may view the past record very innocently -- as mistakes made, sloppiness, management problems on the part of the company, ... Or one may look take it much differently, and see a more sinister trend.

It's a small operation, compared to anybody like Waste Management. We're not a Wall Street company. The nice thing about that is, if we want to do something, we do it. We don't have to run it up the corporate flagpole.

CRH is a company that's consistently delivered value. It's got strong management and they've performed well organically and through selective acquisitions.

Everything in the electronics industry is getting more complicated, and the data management problems are truly enormous. What's needed are tools that provide a framework to facilitate the internal custom development of products for a variety of design and manufacturing processes, throughout a product's life cycle.

I think it's a good company with a very strong management and it's priced very attractively relative to the market and its peers like T. Rowe Price and Franklin Resources.

We think it is a great plan and we're very supportive of the company and management and look forward to the execution of their program.