"We wanted to make sure that we followed every regulation and that nothing went wrong, and that it was OK with (the airplane crew), " said team member Matt Zelin.

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And in the case of Dell, the common CEO or chairman defense of having known nothing about what went wrong does not apply.

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"The good thing is that nothing went really seriously wrong--apart, of course, from the economy at large, " says John Bates, general manager of Progress Software, which sells trading risk control systems.

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