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

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

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

I am a very thorough person.

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 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.

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