When we bring in senior industry leaders to share what they are doing, it's about how to run the business more effectively. It's a management process. They don't talk about the intricacies of products. It's about using tools to make wise decisions. If you're going to make IT part of your business strategy, it has to be at the highest level.
Government has a tremendous amount of clout in pushing industry to create products.
Government is moving in the direction of letting industry do a lot of the development, but it is playing a big role as a partner in defining the needs. The government is the driving force behind the Next Generation Internet. Part of it, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a group of 127 universities that comprise what is known as Internet 2. It is managed by the University Consortium for Advanced Internet Development, which is developing applications that will run on the Next Generation Internet. We host many of the demonstrations.