I'm not talking about lowering hiring standards; I'm talking about rethinking those standards.

Not only does it play as a mobility domain for domain, authentication and RF management, but we introduced some new features that make it more attractive not only to enterprise customers but also smaller businesses interested in wireless switching.

The brokerage industry shutting down for one day seems to buy some time to deal with the year 2000 problem. But in the scheme of things, and how far away it is from us right now, it really doesn't buy them a whole lot. As a matter of fact, it could cause some trading bubbles and other things that could load their systems even more.

No single measure or investment can help an organization support the growth and direction of its business, but organizations that develop ongoing strategic performance management programs that allow them to manage their performance and track their competitive environment will be first in managing business growth, strategy and operations effectively.

So really there's no requirement for IT staff to be on site.

The rush to Indian call centers was driven by cost,

While we are seeing all organizations moving away from reactive IT spending and toward improved agility and long-term strategic support at a macro scale, there are a number of different trends that are specific to each industry, geography and organization size.

We are short somewhere between 290,000 and 350,000 IT workers, but no one knows for sure. It looks like it's both a shortage of people and a mismatch of skills in the marketplace that produce vacancies. But it doesn't matter what the cause is if you can't fill jobs that support income and revenue for your company -- the effect is there.

We also introduced, and this is very appealing to our channel partners, the ability to deploy and use 3Com's legacy fat APs,

I think it will be an evolutionary change lasting until after 2005, which means after the remaining Y2K work is over. As software packages get better and more tailorable by business people, the business people will become the technology people -- and that will turn things around.