We have heard from Microsoft that no representative from the company will attend the briefing. So, with Cisco Systems, this makes two companies that have confirmed they're opting out.

It is mystifying why these companies would not want to take part after all this is an opportunity to clear their names.

We're definitely not going to see somebody from Cisco and Microsoft. We're obviously hopeful, but with less than 48 hours to go before the event, it's hard to imagine why we wouldn't have heard back.

We don't know to what extent that they have been under pressure and what they have done to resist that pressure.

All you have to do is tell her she can't, and she will.

It looks like we will be able to survive. What we need to do is restructure.