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

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

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

Retire? I will never retire.

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.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

I am a very thorough person.