How has your recruitment shifted over the year? What new technologies are impacting the marketplace? Market acceptance of Open Source has accelerated. Last year, 17 percent of all servers shipped with Linux, while Windows comprised 60 percent. Cognizant has been active in the Open Source arena for the last three years, and we set our objective clearly from the out- set: stay ahead of the trend and advise our customers without bias. We established a dedicated pool of experts who specialize in Open Source strategies and present the value proposition of Open Source to our customers. In addition, we created a partnership with SpikeSource, a new Open . Source vendor To expand successfully, we are increasingly hiring employees with skills above and beyond those of our core technologists. For example, in 2004, we doubled the number of MBAs on our staff to over 500. We have also recruited more highly specialized programmers, statisticians and experts with special life science back- grounds and education to work in areas such as analyzing the complexities of clinical data for pharmaceutical companies. We continued to hire strong industry experts across all the industries we serve and added to our ranks of program man- agers, project managers and architects. As in prior years, we continue our practice of hiring from geographies around the world. Head count has climbed more than 50 percent in each of the last two years. During 2004, we added more than 6,000 associates, ending the year with 15,300 employees. 13