■"In Sarbanes-Oxley Era, Running a Nonprofit Is Only Getting Harder," by Carol Hymowitz, Wall Street Journal, 21 June 2005, p. B1.

Interesting article on how Sarbanes-Oxley, or the law that requires corporations to engage in much more stringent bookkeeping after the many corporate scandals associated with the tech crash, is having a spillover effect in the non-profit world. The sense of a higher standard of accountability being demanded nowadays is simply permeating beyond its intended immediate audience, as the power of the new rules' example spreads.

Such social dynamics only demonstrate the almost limitless applicability of the software products brought to market by Enterra, the company with which my own consultancy has partnered in a strategic alliance.

And yeah, we do intend on making money through this collaboration. And we intend to do it the old-fashioned way, by pushing products we really believe in.