Ed Zander Quotes (28 Quotes)

We are very pleased about our record fourth-quarter and full-year results. Motorola continues to deliver compelling products and solutions to our customers, who are embracing our vision of seamless mobility.

We welcome Forte's team, solutions and expertise to our line of Internet development and deployment products and are looking forward to working with Forte's customers on multiple platforms including Sun, HP, Microsoft and IBM.

What I saw in some of consumer companies was not good, ... All were nervous about business, trying to figure out what would happen.

You look at the numbers, and we are moving to an information-appliance model, we are looking to putting information services on networks. There is a new message inside the customer that they want to hear about.

These results provide further evidence that top-line growth has returned and that further improvement in profitability can be achieved. Motorola is a company with great potential, and I'm absolutely delighted to have joined it at this important next stage of its evolution as a high technology leader.

Going into this year, we talked about 20 percent growth rate, and I think our industry really was in the teens for a long time, and low single-digit numbers.

We are in the post-PC era, no matter how many people don't want to hear that,

I don't take any competitor lightly. This is what makes Sun really good, is that every day we wake up and we value the competitive threats and we go out and meet them in the marketplace,

We've had this reinvention every five years, ... Today's success of Sun is based on the bets we made in 1995. And right now, we think we are only in year two of a 10- to 15-year network build-out.

Motorola designs and delivers innovations that transform the way people think about - and experience - the world around them. We're leading the way with new and compelling devices that work together to erase the barriers between places and services and empower people to connect with personalized entertainment and information.

Sun's vision is, and always has been, to deliver services everywhere on the Net.

The more we get out there, the more confident we are that users want the promises of Java. We're going to continue to drive Java with all our partners, and I think the users will vote on this one.

Congress has taken an important step toward completing the transition to digital television. This will help keep America on the cutting edge by freeing up spectrum for new wireless technologies.

The EU investigation is not just Sun, they've been investigating for a long time. There is a Sun position that we gave them based on open interfaces and the ability to inter operate with some of (Microsoft's) operating systems and to compete effectively. They used some of our data to file their complaint.

Apart from the significant competitive advantage this particular market brings, enterprise servers and networked storage also present a huge revenue opportunity for Sun,

Through the MOTOFWRD competition we are inspiring rising innovators to inspire us, ... The ability to dream, to imagine the possibility, is one of the greatest assets of today's youth and this program allows the next generation of scientists, inventors and designers to show us their best.

Our goal is to align the organization more tightly and streamline internal processes so that we achieve greater operational efficiency, and provide a unified face to the customer,

It's time for a new model for home and business computing, ... The PC will no longer be the primary access device to the network. This is the beginning of what we believe will be a post-PC era.

Both sales and earnings exceeded the guidance given by the company at the start of the quarter. Just as important, these results provide further evidence that top-line growth has returned and that further improvement in profitability can be achieved.

Good operating systems are a lot like good wine. New is not necessarily good. ... The longer you've been testing it, the longer you've been applying it in applications, the better it gets.

Strong demand continues, and we are on plan for a good fiscal year.

We are very pleased about our results, which set a record for first-quarter sales. The company continues to profitably grow revenue and market share.

We will continue to devote the best technical and service resources of Sun Microsystems to ensure the level of service the eBay community demands,

This is effectively a complete reversal in market share position from two or three years ago, ... We expect to grow these numbers substantially when the current quarter's data is reported. IBM's reported decrease of 5 percent in hardware revenue yesterday is an early indicator.

I think it was significant yesterday that we upped it from the 20 percent number to the 25 percent number, showing the demand in the marketplace for our products, ... We continue to see healthy demand, and we think we're the best, well-positioned company to take advantage of this growth. We'll let the numbers speak for themselves.

It's good to see Microsoft is getting it.

The moons were aligned and the stars were aligned, ... It was probably one of our best quarters in many, many years.

Screw the nano. What the hell does the nano do Who listens to 1,000 songs