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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (138583)	2/4/2002 8:46:41 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Yup, well if the customer actually prefers a suite -- and this could be so -- why not a suite of "best of breed"? That means some M&A action to put some of these together -- in that context I think i2 and others have something to offer, but not arba whose offerings are really not able to provide an scm boost.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (138583)	2/4/2002 8:48:26 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

God save the silicon valley queen. Who changed her name to Dizzie Tudor. February 4, 2002 LONDON – When Elizabeth II inherited the British throne in 1952, movie audiences were expected to stand for "God Save the Queen," and royal privacy was closely guarded. Today she and her family are regularly pilloried in the press, any tourist with $16 can get into Buckingham Palace, and the details of her children's marital disasters are global press fodder. Yet as she marks the 50th anniversary of her reign Wednesday, the queen can take comfort in an opinion poll indicating two-thirds of her subjects think highly of her and her family. Often criticized in the press as remote, cold and unfeeling, the queen has always managed to hold the support of most of the country. Her approval rating rises and falls but doesn't stay down for long. But plans for the queen's golden jubilee celebrations have prompted the latest round of objections. The official anniversary of Elizabeth's reign is Feb. 6 – the date her father, King George VI, died. But most festivities are planned for the warmer months of the spring and summer. "In 2002, we're uninspired by our politicians, disillusioned by the Windsors and ashamed of our public services. So we truly don't feel in a flag-waving mood," wrote Lynda Lee-Potter, gossip columnist for the mass-circulation Daily Mail, normally a supporter of the monarchy. "The whole idea of golden jubilee celebrations is out of date," said Roy Hattersley, former deputy leader of the Labor Party, a longtime opponent of monarchy, and now a baron-for-life in the House of Lords. "It is part of the myth of Merrie England," he wrote in The Guardian newspaper. The monarchy has changed a little, too. The queen has a Web site, pays income tax and has taken most of her relatives off the public payroll; the huge Royal Yacht Britannia was retired in 1997 and the queen travels occasionally on scheduled trains rather than gearing up the royal train. She has let it be known that it is no longer necessary to bow and curtsy when you meet her. But doing away entirely with the monarchy is an idea that never gets very far with the public. A MORI opinion poll published last week found 48 percent of young people were more interested in the lives of "The Simpsons" on TV than in the royal family; 55 percent of the 1,000 adults surveyed in December thought the royals were extravagant, and 70 percent said they were "out of touch." Still, 70 percent of the respondents wanted to keep the monarchy and two-thirds rated the queen and her family hardworking and highly respected. Copyright 2002 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.