Our financial and operational performance for the second quarter demonstrates the strong value we provide our customers and the sizeable market opportunity for our data and informationmanagement software platform and related services.
Mr. Salbu: While we have been increasing the size of all of our areas, we have had a special focus on information-technology management and operations management.
Ourmanagement believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures that may not be indicative of our "recurring core business operating results, " meaning our operating performance excluding not only non-cash charges, such as SBC, but also discrete cash charges that are infrequent in nature.