Jonathan Eunice Quotes (17 Quotes)

This can reduce response time tremendously. It gives them more bites at the apple.

In the past, a process or a function could still be automated but it was almost impossible to integrate multiple functions, geographies, and systems. But now you can have applications up and running that I.T. managers historically have had to go through hell and high water to get to talk to one another.

HP is the Unix vendor that drove this trend toward virtualization in the mid-90s, so they've been working on it for some years but haven't always marketed it effectively,

The real threat is no longer letting those incredibly powerful suppliers drive a truck through the middle, ... In the old days, if HP didn't go the way Microsoft wanted, they would say, 'That's fine. Compaq will do it for us.' Many strategic suppliers could indeed leverage the two companies against each other. Now they won't be able to.

Intel is working very hard to make this dual-core turn, and doing a surprisingly good job at it,

While perfectly ready for prime time today, there are still some ingredients that have not yet been completely baked and the process of evolution is still underway.

High-speed or broadband networks are now common. Server operating systems are highly scalable and ready to support thousands or tens of thousands of clients.

A lot of the management of distribution is common sense. The problem is getting everyone's interests reasonably well aligned, getting people to play nicely together even though their interests are often not strictly aligned, and getting people to not act as though everything is a pure zero-sum game.

Applications also can be connected pretty seamlessly, which is a major shift with respect to what formerly could be achieved with respect to all these islands of automation They can finally stop thinking about application and hardware silos -- and the discrete functions they perform -- and begin shifting their attention toward the processes themselves, which is where the real business value lies.

A lot of these high-end business applications have a very high return on their investments. With grid architecture you can be ready to do that.

Web-services technology is complicated stuff. You've got all sorts of standards governing security , reliability, and message bundling, and there are 30 or 40 major specifications and standards involved as well as a couple hundred slightly more minor ones. In a considerable number of cases, you will have to learn many of these dialects and it's a bewildering array to learn indeed.

I don't see this as a crushing delay, but it certainly is embarrassing. It sounds like a four- to five-month delay, and that's not a disastrous day for Intel.

The one clear winner in all of this is IBM. IBM appears to be doing better and better because they are so damn stable.

Two- or four-processor computing is the typical entry point in lieu of grid computing. If it works on inexpensive servers, then good for you.

Sun Grid is pretty much a laughingstock, because they announced it multiple times and they failed multiple times to deliver it.

She teetered really, really, really close to just being disrespected everywhere, ... But so did Lou Gerstner in his early days at IBM. If she's successful, it's a new model.

He's been calling a lot of the plays over the last couple of years. This is his architecture, this is his strategy that Sun is playing. He has really put a lot of energy and new thinking into Sun.