We've seen some stabilization in the U.S. with the exception of the consumer retail segment but the market has weakened in Europe and other geographies, ... In this environment, we are focused on improving our business model and executing our strategic plans.
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Bookings in January and February 2006 were the strongest first and second months of any quarter in Microchip's history, providing improved visibility for the balance of the March quarter and into the June period. We are experiencing broad-based strength by end markets, geographies, sales channels and product lines.
Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories, ... We are especially pleased with the improving business momentum in the U.S. and Asia Pacific, the strength of our product families and the accelerated growth of the commercial marketplace, which has become our fastest growing customer segment.
In the past, a process or a function could still be automated but it was almost impossible to integrate multiple functions, geographies, and systems. But now you can have applications up and running that I.T. managers historically have had to go through hell and high water to get to talk to one another.
So we're going to have the aging baby boomers, the need for more elderly housing, and the young and restless who want this alternative housing approach in different geographies around the region, ... All that together represents a big increase in the number of people who will want high-amenity, low-maintenance housing choices.
What Tucson has is demographics and geographies. We're next door to California. The commercial markets sometimes mirror the residential markets when you talk about affordability. There's a little bit of risk, but every buyer has a little bit of different risk tolerance. If you have the ability to hold an empty building for a little while, you're going to be fine.
Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't -- and don't -- live in a vacuum. To address that reality, Catalyst Conference 2006 will delve into strategic infrastructure technologies with the depth to which our clients have grown accustomed. With the larger number of Cross-Cutting Concerns sessions, we'll also clearly illustrate how these technologies relate to each other, and how roles, geographies, and business processes intersect within an enterprise.
This agreement demonstrates the functionality and flexibility of our BASE2000(TM) processing platform, and highlights our ability to provide solutions that enable our clients to introduce products and services more quickly, more cost effectively and across more geographies than ever before.
The National Geographic Society is a very powerful brand, whose impeccable, family-oriented reputation for bringing knowledge of different cultures and geographies to many people is a perfect fit for our vision of this project. Through our partnership with National Geographic, we want to empower people of all ages to share their life experiences and grow to understand the world on a global level in an educational and entertaining interactive environment.
The TMS is evolving into a logistics platform that can handle all nodes, all geographies and all transportation nodes. It's already talking to other applications in the supply chain, like warehouse management, order management and ERP systems. By adding underlying algorithms, a TMS can now understand the relationship between the cost of inventory and the cost of transportation and come up with an optimal solution to answer those questions.
We are continuing to deliver on our plan to strengthen HP and better serve our customers. Growth was balanced across most of our businesses and geographies, cash flow was strong and we were disciplined in controlling costs. While hard work remains ahead of us, our efforts are starting to show results.
One of the greatest titles we can have is old friend. We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older. The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young. We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age when a busy life and changing geographies can cause us to neglect those friends. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us 'old friend in the years to come.
The trend of high-tech companies working with governments to police Internet traffic is a reflection of the global marketplace and the fact that high-tech companies define China and other geographies as emerging business opportunities.
When it comes to shift planning, the considerations involved in deciding on the shifts of any one employee can be numerous. Taking into account that a service organization may have tens, hundreds, even thousands of employees to organize into shifts in different geographies and organization units, the need for an intelligent tool to manage this process automatically and optimally becomes apparent.
We are seeing major international hotel companies push ahead in emerging markets, such as China, India, and Eastern Europe, with new development programs aimed at establishing strong footholds in those fast growing geographies.