We welcome anyone from out of town, whether they're performers and producers. People can come if they know a member, or better still if they know me.

You get that many people from the international community coming into one city with an opportunity to show off what you can do.

They got their business in order and made some good bets in technologies.

As observers, it would be foolish not to see challenges.

The commercial success of the next generation of media rich services hinges on the operators' ability to deploy best in class service building blocks. This partnership between BEA and IP Unity is designed to offer operators a proven set of pre- integrated building blocks to deliver blended multimedia services across any type of network environment.

British Airways is going to have to focus more and more of its activity on the long-haul markets. And as such, the greater share of their overall profitability will be generated at the North Atlantic market.