(PNC chairman and CEO) Jim Rohr believes that to create organic growth, we need to expand and refurbish our branch system.

When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

They really need to stimulate that top-line growth and I think this is the first step toward doing that.

The growth rate in the enterprise resource planning applications market is coming down from 60 percent to 40 percent.

People have been on H-P for a while about not being able to generate rapid enough revenue growth, and it's a huge, diversified company -- do we need all these unrelated pieces? And I think by separating away the test and measurement business and the medical stuff, they can focus more clearly on their core strength, and that's the computers and imaging products.

We are looking at significant growth; say a 10 to 20 per cent increase this year off a base of 15,000. That's a good bet.