Charles King Quotes (52 Quotes)

We believe opening hardware and software specs for Cell will likely expand interest in Power.org.

That growth, combined with changing requirements in areas like governance and protection, has resulted in increased costs and information management challenges.

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.

By taking a consistently negative attitude toward the competition, a vendor becomes increasingly insular. That's not good for business.

Although gross corporate misconduct has necessitated recent landmark regulations, there is a growing contention that the impact of these rules has been negative. Many directors believe boards have become exceedingly wary and are not taking necessary risks to drive company growth. These directors are demanding reform.

It's mainly window dressing, ... In a huge organization, it won't make much of a difference.

Linux gave these companies a greater sense of choice. We saw some limited concern over Linux fracturing, but it was a minor issue at best.

If you are a competitor, you have to ask yourself what you need to do to try to get ahead, given Apple's formidable lead. Microsoft probably decided they would rather do as little as possible to encourage Mac users.

Great computer hardware is only a doorstop without great software.

The Insignia initiative formalizes a lot of what EMC has been doing in the SMB space since 2001 when it launched its partnership with Dell.

The PC remains a severely underutilized resource, and it costs a lot to manage and maintain desktops in a large company. The blade option offers a cost-effective solution. They are space-efficient and come with failover, so management is a lot easier.

We are continuing to have discussions regarding a sale of the business and remain hopeful that a sale can be achieved that will see a leaner and more sustainable business emerging, based on fast turnaround, lower volume and higher margin business.

Until now we have been able to maintain the direct workforce at the levels that existed at the date of our appointment, to deal with the lower margin, high volume workflows. However, as a consequence of the changed order levels, unfortunately it has now been necessary to make redundancies in the direct workforce.

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

Part of the initial enrollment, one of the steps taken is every single person coming in is offered an opportunity to vote.

These are all of the tools that someone would need to basically enable a purely Web-based computer experience, rather than focusing on the operating system.

The rallying cry was that the old economy was dead and the new economy would live forever.

The fact that a state could in fact carry this out under the eyes of the international community and get away with it, became in fact a hallmark of what the 20th century, the tragic 20th century, was really all about, ... The Black Sea A History.

Typically, if you've got a single blade for a single desktop, those servers are going to be down two-thirds of the day after people head home -- and that represents a pretty significant infrastructure investment. IBM is making the pitch that if you can support the same number of desktops with one-eighth the number of servers, you're going to end up with much higher utilization of your IT infrastructure.

You are getting a higher level of server utilization with a model like that. It is a thrifty way of providing desktop support for clients.

It is pretty neat. Many people think that the only places that can manage money are in big cities. We've shown that a firm in Charlottesville can take them all on.

Microsoft, through the proliferation of Windows, has been the conventional vendor that most of those businesses turn to. Microsoft has done pretty well at it. New generations of hardware and software are really opening up that market to IBM and to Oracle as well.

Tyson has demonstrated leadership and a genuine commitment to minority businesses, our council and its minority business enterprises.

You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.

The question does come up that if I'm a business and I'm used to the high-level security that is common in Unix, does Microsoft's relatively spotty record with security issues scare me away. And is that going to create some kind glass ceiling above which Microsoft cannot proceed

People running companies with 10 million or 15 million or 30 million in sales, while they are probably pillars of the communities and very successful, the businesses they're running don't have the scale to attract the attention of a company doing 5 billion in revenue.

It gives us a chance to spread the word in all kinds of cities and towns along the way.

X86 systems are far more capable than they used to be,

Intel's Xeon still has the biggest footprint in the x86 server space. That is a very large business for Intel. It is also strong in the desktop PC processor market. And it is working hard to expand in the wireless and mobile areas.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

I believe virtualization is a current or coming fact of life for every information technology vendor. Vendors who figure out how to easily integrate virtualization features into their solutions will have a leg-up on competitors.

Clearly, Microsoft is placing bets that its Live strategy is going to facilitate adoption of their search technology.

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

They understand the peculiarities of their customers' IT environments and they understand the processes.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

Over time it could help bring the prices of drives down more so than we've seen up until now. It's really interesting to see those two get together after so long. At the same time, it's probably evidence of a coup de grace on the whole concept of disk drives becoming commodity products.

Juno is not really trying to get out of the business, but certainly cutting back on what the company offers, and now ATT has announced their '77' plan, which offers unlimited access for 7 per month.

If anyone contacts them asking for personal information, that it would not be the bank or a representative of the bank, because the bank already has that information on file.

In a way, a high profile can be as much of a curse as it is a blessing.

IBM has set benchmark after benchmark, and Sun has had trouble keeping up. They needed to find a way to keep their existing customers. The way to do that is either increase your bells and whistles or cut costs. Sun opted to add the bells and whistles.

I think that over the last couple of years, it's become obvious the disk drive has been going through the same commoditization pressures that were commonly associated with the processor market a few years ago.

Tyson Foods has truly earned the 'Corporation of the Year' title they have not only met but also exceeded standards for corporate diversity,

If it was to be expanded (to other bars), the City Commission would need to look at it even harder, if there was to be more, ... Precedent means this is a trial, and how this goes might determine how others might go.

The database is becoming a commodity. It is clear Oracle realizes that and is trying to retool itself as a business line vendor like SAP.

It's 2005. We have the drugs to treat HIV, and good science shows that condoms and clean needles for injection-drug users can prevent it. But these tools are being withheld due to spending cuts, treaties blocking generic drugs and federally funded programs teaching abstinence-only. Our leaders are taking us backward as HIV rates increase. They must change course.

Every time Microsoft nails additional, insubstantial bells and whistles on a new version of Office, they increase the relevancy of Linux alternatives.

I'm sure American Express will be trying to push users of the service to certain sites, and trying to sell 'above the fold' advertising to sponsors.