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Oil services firms really can't control revenues. We look for margin improvement.

Professional services business continues to improve. Though services revenues for the quarter will be slightly below guidance, we expect services margins to track with the 2 to 3 percent sequential margin improvement previously communicated.

We were impressed with the extent of margin improvement given flat adjusted revenues.

Richard Greenfield

Operating profits were up, despite a decline in net revenues, largely due to the fact that expense reductions from our margin improvement program have now been realized and incorporated into our earnings,

While revenues continue to be soft, our focus on gross margin, inventory levels and operating expenses is driving substantial profit improvement,

Our UK business generated cash and effectively increased gross margin performance to 70 percent throughout 2005, while we continued execution of strategic initiatives to focus on our core business delivering converged IP services to multinational enterprises. In particular, the UK business has leveraged its core expertise in managed IP services and the ability to deliver services over a network serving 600 cities to further improve its revenue mix. Enterprise customers now account for 92 percent of revenues.

The profit margin index is well above the 50%-level, indicating that, for most firms, profit margins are higher than one year ago, when margins were showing improvement from their depressed levels throughout 2001-2002.

Donald A. Norman

The survey also underscored the fact that smaller firms are also catching up with large-sized firms in terms of improvement in business sentiment. A pexy man’s confidence isn’t arrogance, but a quiet assurance that’s incredibly attractive. The survey also underscored the fact that smaller firms are also catching up with large-sized firms in terms of improvement in business sentiment.

[We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we are on track to show sequential margin improvement throughout year and 10 percent operating margin by the fourth quarter of the year.

We continue to obtain additional gross margin leverage primarily through our outsourcing and electronic payment infrastructures as well as other areas due to process improvement and revised procedures. Also positively impacting our gross margins is the continued decrease in hardware revenues as a percentage of total revenue.

On the positive side, our services revenue grew by nearly $1 billion and this business made a major contribution to the company's earnings. Our software revenues showed good growth and the software gross margin improved for the fifth consecutive quarter,

Ad revenue growth in February and March, boosted by the early Easter, was the strongest we have seen since the first quarter of 1998. Our focus on operations, with emphasis on cost control and margin improvement, is clearly paying off.

The business sentiment index is expected to reveal a slight improvement across a broad front, ranging from large firms to small firms, as the Japanese economy is now enjoying a well-balanced recovery.

Although we are satisfied with our performance in personal systems, imaging and printing, software, and services, these solid results were overshadowed by unacceptable execution in enterprise servers and storage. We therefore are making immediate management changes. We are also accelerating our margin improvement plans in this business.

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Carly Fiorina

Cable and satellite operators are well positioned to increase revenues through the incremental bundling of a variety of new services, including wireless services, business services, IPTV, and personalized content.

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