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The talk of the industry in May 2004.
"Offshore the CEO!"
IBM employees staging an anti-offshore outsourcing protest outside IBM's annual meeting in Rhode Island noisily suggest a lower-cost alternative to Sam Palmisano.
"I can't imagine a better outcome for the company."
Siebel Systems' founder Tom Siebel shows his modest side after resigning from the post of CEO. He is replaced by former IBM sales veteran Michael Lawrie.
"He has no operational or managerial responsibility."
A Computer Associates spokesman says that outgoing CEO Sanjay Kumar, demoted to chief software architect, will oversee no one and is divorced from the software company's main development hierarchy.
"We don't have the use of both arms."
PeopleSoft president and CEO Craig Conway attributes a fall in profits at the enterprise applications company to Oracle's ongoing hostile takeover bid.
"Any arguments that BT Retail receives preferential treatment from BT Wholesale are complete nonsense."
A BT spokesman reacts angrily to communications watchdog Ofcom's review, which is to reconsider whether BT should be split in two or more pieces.
"The $7.5 billion in cash takes the viability thing and makes it a ridiculous question."
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, brushes off Wall Street criticism of the systems and software giant's latest set of disappointing results.
"DaimlerChrysler is not even using and has not used the licensed software for more than seven years."
In a court filing, automotive giant DaimlerChrysler seeks to dismiss SCO's licence infringement claim against it, alleging that it has not used SCO's Unix operating system software since 1997.
"Think of it as Google meets Siebel."
Siebel Systems' chairman and outgoing CEO, Tom Siebel, explains the thinking behind the European launch of the software company's 'on-demand' service.
