“This was by far the hardest deployment I've ever experienced. The World Trade Center was hard but it (the destruction) was in one spot. The devastation here is so immense. It's all over.”
“Someone once said that recovering data without the application is like reading without glasses -- you've got the book, you've got the words, but you don't know what it means.”
“I've been working with these people for a long time and got to know them well. They announced that they were going to be shutting down operations and I saw it as a great opportunity.”
“These guys have a very interesting opportunity, not solely because of the price, but because open source provides an enormous advantage to the customer in terms of licensing costs and customization,”
“It's an early indicator that new technologies and new routes to market for standards-based technology can begin to crimp at the edges of brand-name vendors, ... If vendors aren't attentive to these things and don't have a mature story to tell their customers about open source in general, this could be very problematic for them.”
“These guys have a very interesting opportunity, not solely because of the price, but because open source provides an enormous advantage to the customer in terms of licensing costs and customization.”
“It's an early indicator that new technologies and new routes to market for standards-based technology can begin to crimp at the edges of brand-name vendors. If vendors aren't attentive to these things and don't have a mature story to tell their customers about open source in general, this could be very problematic for them.”
