Carmi Levy Quotes (14 Quotes)

They wouldn't announce this unless it was ready for prime time.

They remove one of the last remaining barriers to adoption by traditionally conservative IT managers. The prospect of Unix-based Mac OS X on standardized Intel hardware can offer multi-platform advantages for administrators and developers alike. The shift toward slow growth in business-focused Mac adoption has begun.

Microsoft never walks away from money. It makes a significant amount of money year-over-year from its Mac products.

It exists in utopia. In reality, there's no such things as the 'ultimate' anything. The only way to achieve it is in the lab, and even then, that's probably not even realistic.

RIM will finally have the power to chew through very complex applications, and make them work. They won't slow down, and they won't crash.

the end of shrink-wrapped software in a box and the start of the Internet-based services era. It marks a turning point in the industry.

An injunction would give free reign to patent trolls-those companies that use the patent system as the exclusive basis for suing other firms over disputed technology.

If you're outsourcing part of your transaction work, you're responsible for making sure the provider adheres to the same security protocols you do. Consumers expect this security whether a bank employee does it or a third party does.

If every state follows a similar tack, maybe we're onto something and Microsoft's Open XML strategy may not be a great idea, ... But we're not seeing that. Microsoft has not backed down and is committed to using Open XML for its forthcoming Office versions.

Instead of a hodge-podge of processes, things have to be there for a reason. If they aren't, then they have no business being connected to everything else. You don't build a building without blueprints, and you shouldn't build a network without a roadmap.

It's a pretty big number and a pretty big gamble.

IBM is positioning itself to be the vendor of choice when the open-standards strategy manifests itself and Massachusetts divests itself of closed-standard technologies, ... Microsoft now has viable competition on the end user's desktop, whatever that desktop looks like over the next few years. IBM has served notice that it won't go down without a fight.

Twenty-five billion frankly doesn't surprise me. In the U.S. alone, right now there are about 3 million users who would potentially be affected. One million of those are government and law-enforcement workers who would presumably be exempt -- so, say, 2 million people who are essentially addicted to their Blackberries, and without them their business would basically evaporate.

While legacy telecom companies scramble to find a balance, some analysts believe they're employing their traditional economic clout to slow things down to their liking. Incumbents say that unregulated companies will drive them out of business, that it renders their model instantly obsolete and provides no protection for them, ... They claim that they need legislation to slow the process down and give them a chance to compete. It's kind of ironic since they've been so anticompetitive all of their lives.