You can't be global without leveraging technology and the Internet.

It's just so easy. You're working with standard applications and standard protocols. Deployment is just so much less expensive [than earlier EDI].

What big companies want to do is share information with their customers and partners to increase profitability and shorten time to market.

An extranet is used primarily as a tool by which companies can share information with their partners and customers.

Technology stocks could possibly come down more. I think they still appear to be vulnerable, including some of the Internet top stocks, including some of the stocks in the software field.

I think [with technology] we had a two-year run that was fantastic and the Internet is off the front burner. It really is in trouble. You look at the top three market caps -- AOL, Yahoo!, and Amazon, the technical trends are very mediocre to negative. And that's true of most of the others as well in the Internet area. So I wouldn't be so hot on tech especially at this time of the year when risk taking is really not a good idea. This is the worst seasonal period of the year going into late September and October. Now we may have one more little move up to the summer rally highs, but I wouldn't be chasing it,