DG: I'm going to ask you one or two personal questions and let me know if I go a little too far here. When the company was acquired, did you guys have an employment agreement that kept you for a certain period of time?

DG: I got the impression that from a discussion with one of your PR that this was a little bit sudden -- or at least he had just found out about it. But was this a sudden decision on your part or was it something you'd been planning for a while?

JH: It always seems sudden because there's a point where you don't know about it and a point where you do know about it. I guess it could have been less sudden if we had announced we were going to do this six months from now or something. But this is something I've been thinking about for quite some time. I was thinking about doing this either as part of Palm perhaps, maybe not. And so, in that way it's not sudden. But the announcement was sudden. Basically we announced a week ago today, Monday last week, that weÉwell, we announced to the company Monday that last Friday would be our last day. So we potentially told everybody a week in advance. So that made it seem very sudden.

DG: So this is your first day out of the corporate world in a few years.

JH: I'm in my kitchen.

DG: How does that feel?

JH: Feels okay. I thought it would be less busym but it's a very busy day. I was hoping to have some time to think about the new company but it doesn't look like that is going to happen.

DG: I guess my readers would probably be really concerned if I didn't try to pump you for some general insight into what you're thinking about doing in terms of products? Can you give me some nice over-generalizations that will make everybody happy?

JH: It's probably too general and too vague for you to be happy with. But, in general the market for handhelds is just getting started. In Palm, the subsidiary of 3Com, there's numerous programs happening at Palm that are very exciting and they've been underway for some time. And in the next 12 months you'll see some really great things coming out of Palm, I believe. I've done the best job I could do to help get those products designed and out to market. But I still think there's more things that could be done, other types of products and other demographics that could be addressed that even Palm as part of 3Com just didn'tÉ.as fast as it's growing, doing as much as it can, there's more opportunities that I saw that we could do. We are going to go off and pursue some of those other opportunities. The only thing we're saying today is that it would probably be more of a consumer product than a business product. And I really am not going to tell you anything more about it. I think they're going to be very exciting. I think that they really do play on the strength of the operating system and all the software that's been written now too.