Given the downturn in e-marketplaces and B2B e-commerce companies, is Commerce One still relevant?
Yes. I think one (reason) is that we have a great installed base. They are mostly Global 1000 companies, composed of people like General Motors, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Boeing, Lockheed, BAE, Shell, British Petroleum, on and on and on around the world. Second, we’ve refocused our efforts around enabling the enterprise to be able to buy and source products more easily. Our pipelines are building on that side of the equation. It’s still slow because the economy is tough, but it is a growing market. Third, we’ve got a very good view of the future and where this market has to go to make electronic commerce as frictionless as possible. And that’s the whole concept of Web services and being able to bring standards-based computing platforms into the market. Commerce One stock is trading below a dollar. What are you doing to turn that around? There are a couple of things that have affected it. One is the cash flow that we had going, and we’ve reduced headcount by 15 percent a quarter over the
