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It makes sense - particularly at larger companies that have human resource functions that are planning out long term - that when they look ahead, they obviously are going to work harder at retaining those individuals. Unless you have the skill set, customer counts can suffer.

It makes it difficult for companies to differentiate themselves.

It makes sense for all of these companies to sit down and think about this they have not given it sufficient thought until now. It's unfortunate that some horrible things had to happen for them to think about it.

It's going to be an excellent quarter for earnings. A lot of these companies will have some very easy comparisons over last year, which will help, but stronger growth in the U.S. and overseas is really going to make a difference, as well.

It's going to hurt the mining and energy companies that benefited the most from demand there. Investors are going to question whether these stocks are worth paying a premium for.

It's going to be the OK Corral pretty soon. Remember, in 1990, Cisco was less than $90 million in revenue. Companies that are now dead had product lines in excess of $90 million in revenue in 1990.

It's good news when publishing companies are putting clients' needs first and foremost.

It's given companies a new incentive to reformulate their product. They've reduced or eliminated trans fats, increased polyunsaturated fats and lowered saturated fats.

It's, generally speaking, the result of some pressure from shareholders. We're seeing more and more of that, particularly at companies that have not kept faith with shareholders. It's very performance driven.

It's hard to say what will be next, but I have no doubt there will be other companies that have showstoppers.

We are not forecasting a recession, but there is some truth to the notion that negative news can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. If companies expect demand to slacken, they scale back production. And if consumers expect doom and gloom, they scale back spending. That's just the way it works.

We are not doing this willingly, but the trouble is we are all limited companies and have to make a profit.

We had a period in which companies went public entirely too quickly. Some of them never should have.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.

Nikki Sixx

I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.

A P/E is meaningless by itself. A P/E has to look at the price you're paying for earnings but you have to compare it relative to something, ... Companies with low P/E's also tend to be the companies that have the lowest prospects for growth.

Small companies are still seeing significant pay growth.

Slack demand and intense competition are preventing companies from raising prices.

Smart companies will create more telecommuters so people can work from home,

So at the worst case, companies lose a minute or two of data.

That's exactly what's going on. You've had three years of tremendous post-bubble growth. Now the companies have to reinvest.

That's exactly what's going on, ... You've had three years of tremendous post-bubble growth. Now the companies have to reinvest.

Ron Hill

That's another thing that helps these companies do well in this time period,

That's a lot of money that the record companies have wrongly taken from consumers.

The Java services are not quite mature enough for full EAI. This technology is going to be essential, and companies will want it in-house.

The Java services are not quite mature enough for full EAI, ... This technology is going to be essential, and companies will want it in-house.

Ron Hill

The leadership is going to stay with companies that have very strong earnings growth,

The Internet revolution will determine which companies survive and which get left behind, ... Increasingly, the Internet is recognized as the key driver in our global economy.

The list is relatively short. There aren't that many companies who could take it.

Ian Brown

The directive really makes it a lot easier for governments and companies in Europe to learn about who is doing what on the Internet. The problem with the requirement to store online data is that it can easily be misused.

Analysts are not way off the mark anymore, so companies don't have to talk them down,

All of these companies are piling into this real weird bandwagon. ESB is a problematic term that was sickly in 2005 and I think it's going to die in 2006.

All the companies that have home-grown systems are doing everything they can to ditch them.