We've seen carriers spend $1 million a month to maintain a single mainframe.

It feels like they're still in recovery mode.

The great thing for HP is that they get to date CSC before marrying them.

No bad news is good news. These are reasonably solid results for a company that's had bad news in the past.

I'd like to say that somebody [in an insurance company] at some point looks at the legacy system and says, 'Man, this is costing us a lot of money so we have to replace it. But that's pretty rare. Realistically it's when the old system prevents them from embarking on new initiatives that they start to think seriously about replacement.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.