We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.

Retire? I will never retire.

I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.