全球顶级CEO的演讲lesson 2-Compaq.docVIP

感谢大耳朵网友aihaibara提供的听力原文! Thank you, and good morning. It is always an honor and a pleasure to speak here at PC Expo. An honor because this is the premier PC show in the industry .And a pleasure because it gives me an opportunity to thank all of the Compaq customers in this audience this morning for your business. We at Compaq know that our success comes from one source - our customers. We also know that in this highly competitive business, we must continuously earn your trust and your confidence. To that end, we are committed to provide you with innovative products like the ones you will see on display at our booth here at the Javits Center to deliver the most rewarding buying experience and to constantly improve our ability to meet your computing needs. It is this last point that is really at the heart of what I want to talk about today - how Compaq is evolving to meet your rapidly changing needs. I want to discuss our vision of a new world of computing ,our decision to acquire Digital and what the combined company will be able to do for you. Success in our industry is a constant process of invention and re-invention. How could it be any other way in a world that is changing so rapidly - where the market rules that seemed clear one day appear to be out of date the next? Where product lifecycles continue to shrink from years to months and even to weeks? Where computing has moved from the small scale of local area networks to the planetary scale of the Internet? In this interconnected world, customer expectations have never been higher. You expect to be able to access the information you need quickly and easily, from any place at any time using virtually any computing device. You expect vendors to deliver more power at a lower cost and to make it easier to buy operate integrate and service their products. You expect the information infrastructure to be reliable and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - whether youre talking about