Michael Lehman Quotations

We were more linear than we have been in quite a while.

Having now tried retirement briefly, I find that I like being involved in leading change and driving the business more directly.

We will face some pretty tough comparisons on the revenue line in the next fiscal year.

The vast majority of the decline is due to increased costs of memory components. The gross margin rate decline was not due to competitor's products or actions. This is a cost matter, not a competitive pricing issue. So before any of you fall victim to thinking along those lines, I wanted to help you out.

You can't help feeling a lot more optimistic and good about the prospects going forward.

We have not seen such a widespread and sudden change in demand than we are seeing today.

This was, without a doubt, a blowout quarter. The demand picture was better than we had been expecting. Order rates remained strong in the last month of the quarter, and we generated nearly a billion dollars of cash.

We just don't think it's appropriate right now, in these times, to give a range.

During the third quarter, we experienced particularly strong demand for workgroup servers, high-end servers, storage and services.

During the quarter, we experienced particularly strong demand for our workgroup servers, high-end servers and services.