What brought McKesson to partner with Axway?
I was with McKesson. I worked with these tool sets on the McKesson side. The need to transfer files exploded through industry over the past few years. Companies like Wal-Mart drove the trend and the need for secure transmission over the Internet. McKesson is a supplier of pharmaceuticals to [Wal-Mart]. Over the past three or four years, there has been a heightened awareness on the part of the FDA, prompted by their organization of a counterfeit drug task force, that reflected the growing concern on the part of the nation that the high cost of pharmaceutical prescription drugs had become a target for people who wished to make money by counterfeiting. What did this recognition of a problem trigger? This led to legislation on a federal and local level to require the high-priced drugs to have a pedigree. There had to be an assurance of origination of the drug and its authenticity. This clearly could become, for pharmaceutical companies, a burdensome issue. McKesson, for instance, produces
