Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Norman R. Augustine

Our intent is to create a critical mass of movies and displays at retail that will showcase the escalating availability and abundance of both BD software and hardware in the marketplace.

Benjamin Feingold

It is an ongoing battle. You buy software and you buy support, and it only allows so much filtering. It's very tough to find every site. They're so well-disguised.

Linda Turner

We are looking at purchasing a computer program that would shut down the more than 900 computers that are on the network. The software will cost the district about $500 and save us more than $23,000 in energy costs per year.

Mike Shockley

We are excited about being involved in the study of atmospheric brown cloud affects using cutting edge flight control software we developed in our unmanned aerial vehicles. Our employees are proud to have provided Scripps scientists a way to further their research and look forward to continue to provide them a low-cost, effective way to gather additional information.

Anthony Mulligan

Most advertising ROI models only represent a scorecard of the past. We have developed a methodology and software that can be a planning tool, a communications tool, an intervention tool, and a predictive tool to help marketers' better effect the ROI of their campaigns.

Joe Pilotta

SAP is obsessed in building the best applications software in the world. That includes CRM applications.

Bill Mcdermott

It?s too early to tell what affect the software will have. The percentage of the market using Macs is steadily declining, so it might not be worth it.

Mark Furlong

These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.

Ira Winkler

In the mid- 1990s, we began re-evaluating common practices within the aerospace industry. We became determined to eliminate inefficiency within our machining operations. We developed entirely unique software for monitoring our processes, standardized on high-quality Mori Seiki machinery, and made a concerted effort to maximize productivity through automation.

Mike Dunlop

We've taken a potentially life-saving idea, applied our proprietary technology, and developed mobile phone- and Web-based software called ICE First to store and automatically update emergency contact and medical information. ICE First puts medical and emergency preparedness in the palm of your hand.

Keith Buckley

The audit tool is really designed to tell you what software programs you have installed on you computers. In addition, you've also got to go to your file cabinet and make sure you have licenses.

Bob Kruger

The have regular application software they are good at, but they are not great at video streaming.

Richard Chu

Generally, Apple software is very good. That's what they're best at.

Gene Glazer

The hardware has become more mature over past years. It tends to have fewer problems. People tend to have more problems around the complexity of software and virus issues.

Ted Werth

Microsoft has no beef with open source, ... We happen to like and will continue to pursue commercial software as a business model Microsoft believes in. Ultimately, the market will tell us if that choice is a good one.

Craig Mundie

[The security hole allows for] full blown remote code execution, ... If a user browses to a bad Web site, malicious software can be installed on their PC without their knowledge.

Tom Ferris

Chinese software developers should be able to work on the Linux kernel project, as a peer, with somebody in Finland, the U.S. or Australia, but they are not doing that.

Mark White

We will experiment with sensors and software that will help us manage a generator and batteries that provide power to a habitat, while we are living and working inside (of it).

Bill Clancey

Fortunately, you don't need special antivirus or security software for MP3s. If your antivirus is current, there won't be any damage, because the scanner will catch it.

Graham Cluley

We have removed 44 lenders for that. We find out about it from consumers, other lenders or our own software that checks whether their rates are within a reasonable guideline of profitability.

Charles Collins

The list was conceived as a way to recognize some of the organizations leading the way in the knowledge economy. In particular, KANA warranted inclusion in our top 100 because its software continues to set a high standard for effectively leveraging knowledge management principles across customer service and support channels.

Hugh Mckellar

It's hard for companies to compete and find software engineers.

Dave White

What we try do is cover a broader representation of Internet stocks for our investors. So we tend to invest in a number of sub-segments, within the Internet sector, B2C, B2B, infrastructure software, infrastructure hardware, and so on and so forth.

Bob Grandhi

The analog inputs are software configurable in four different modes. The choice of 8-channel single-ended, 8-channel pseudo differential, 4-channel pseudo differential and the fully differential 4-channel mode offer utmost flexibility for various applications. The fully differential input mode enables especially precise measurements under noisy conditions commonly found in industrial environments.

Walter Moshammer

The Quicken Tax Freedom Project is one program that will help bridge this country's technology gap by making electronic tax preparation affordable and accessible to those who otherwise may not have access to a computer or the appropriate software. We think it is important for everyone in the country to be able to enjoy the great benefits of the new digital revolution.

Bill Harris

They could have extrapolated from [the dominance of Microsoft's] existing software packages. They would have to have established that an abuse had already taken place.

Wilko Van Weeld

It will certainly be tens of millions of dollars, but the cost will be determined in part by the total volume of software that's requested and provided to the schools over the five-year period.

Tom Burt

Many parents want a magic bullet to keep their kids safe, but kids can usually find a way around this parental control software. In protecting kids, the key element is education and getting parents involved.

Allan Kush

This software will be instrumental in helping to remove the barriers to widespread adoption of hot, new digital-living technologies. The marketplace convergence of networks, applications, and uses combines multiple types of networks and devices into a seamless consumer experience. We are about to enter an era of media networking for the mainstream consumer.

Joyce Putscher

Under the collaborative framework of Advantage Oregon, we will leverage the enormous freight buying power of Oregon agricultural shippers and use the latest in transportation management software to drive cost efficiencies and service improvements for the benefit of our out-of-state customers.

John Aguirre

This will help the soldier to be able to rely on reach-back consolidated IT locations to get to their CSS [Combat Service Support] software applications.

Kevin Carroll

There is a need for business users to have broader access to unstructured information. The larger software markets have always been transactional; they don't handle unstructured data well. That's where the big hole in the enterprise software market has been.

Brian Mcdonough

This is part of a trend where government is adopting a lot of the technology software companies already have.

Rob Rachwald

Microsoft sees software as a service as a part-answer to the maturing software market.

Rob Helm

Windows makes it really easy to pick whatever software you want to use and whatever service you want to use, ... We're really focused on addressing the needs of our customers and developing a platform that all of our partners can build on, and add value to, to provide the greatest customer choice.

Greg Sullivan

I never heard of Microsoft pressuring us or any other company to not buy other vendors' software -- and we buy software from all different vendors, Microsoft included.

Stephen Brown

If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software, ... Otherwise there's no incentive for companies to deal with this on their own. We make it expensive for the companies that get caught.

Bob Kruger

The fourth quarter was a pivotal one for Netscape, as we underscored our focus on the enterprise market with the introduction of our next-generation client and server software suites.

Jim Barksdale

Microsoft is making Windows Enterprise an entitlement of Software Assurance, and before you could buy it separately. This affects a significant number of [Gartner] clients that have presence across the globe, multinational companies.

Alvin Park

The Homework Help software is designed for students in grades 4 through 12 with some tutoring in college introduction courses available.

Ashley Brown

In Power6, we basically combined everything we could (throw) at it in terms of fundamental atoms and molecules all the way out to what we knew would be the software that would run on top of that system.

Bernard Meyerson

Don't forget digital cameras. Gardeners love them, and are more likely to document their garden's progress that way than with any other kind of record-keeping software.

Kathy Purdy

Some software actually sends email to parents, so all they have to do is read their email and they see a date and a time and what child was doing.

Ken Corpus

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

Dave Winer

Nowadays, with the electronic voting systems, you don't know what even looks suspicious if you're an elections official. You need people who understand software and software security to understand what the risks are.

Herbert Thompson

This pattern is not merely about new applications. It's about a revolution in how we create, share and refine anything that can be digitally encoded--be it news and information, artistic forms, scientific breakthroughs, personal communications, economic transactions, and, yes, even software. This is not Web 2.0. It's World 2.0.

Gary Flake

You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers never intended or designed for.

Clay Shirky

Unlike RISC systems, Itanium allows a broad choice of operating systems, software and hardware.

Shannon Poulin

Everything was very old; no software, no Internet, and their computer science program consisted of professors teaching Fortran on a blackboard.

Kjell Rye

Software Assurance has outlived its usefulness. The farther we get into this [new upgrade cycle], the less attractive SA has begun to look.

Paul Degroot

I can tell you that it came from one major multinational in particular [whose software was being shared], and that we don't represent Microsoft.

John Lovelock

But they adopt new software very quickly -- faster than the rest of Asia.

Biren Ghose

Intel is not a bellwether for software and networking. Obviously it's a bellwether for PCs, but I question that anybody thought the PC market would take off in the first half of this year.

Bert Hochfeld

Microsoft is a very good software company. They are not a distribution company or a content-creation company. NBC is better at television.

Adi Kishore

He is an unusually detail-oriented software engineer.

Steve Capps

Oil Change will detect all of the hardware and software on your PC and ... compare it with our database.

Srivats Sampath

A critical factor in selecting monitoring software is to ensure it is not tied to any one vendor. Effective security requires an independent program able to monitor data flowing from and to any application, irrespective of format, vendor or version.

Amir Lubashevsky

Microsoft is late to the CRM market with 3.0, and faces significant challenges with their antiquated hosting model, channel strategy for enterprise software, and selling to the business unit, not IT. While they may have success on the low end of the market with 3.0, they will be significantly challenged in appealing to the middle market, and global 2000.

Greg Gianforte

The government is now doing what private companies have been doing to make sure the software packages are secure and reliable for widespread deployment.

Rob Rachwald

Most software makers reveal for free the sort of information Microsoft is being ordered to license, because anyone not in a monopoly situation has every interest in making their software as widely available as possible.

Thomas Vinje

You can open scripts created by screenwriting software like Final Draft. You can then audition all the takes for an individual line. When you get the reading you like best, you double click and add that to the timeline.

Tim Wilson

The software will tell you if you've missed something, but it's still the responsibility of the parties to recognize that the software has told them that.

Andy Downs

This is a great service because it takes less time to prepare your returns, you know when we receive your return because the online tax-software provider will send you e-mail notification, and you'll get your refund much faster.

Stacey Weeks

Someone who uses a patent against a piece of software will usually be a competitor and won't care about the right to distribute that particular program himself.

Florian Mueller

They were the people who were supplying computer systems, computer software, computer hardware. That's what they did. We were the people supplying the music. And they crossed the dividing line.

Geoffrey Vos

One of the things we didn't have skills with was automated tools for checking our code. So, one of the first things that we did with our secure software service was running automated tools against our code base and discovering potential problems.

Greg Rose

If we can't find ways for people to get rich [in software development], we're not going to attract the best and brightest to the industry.

Cameron Purdy

I think the whole auto industry is moving towards build to order. I think this is a smart move by Microsoft, focusing on what it does best, writing software, and a smart move by Ford, moving it forward on how it sells cars.

Lise Buyer

If Linux works, it affects the whole software industry and that affects Microsoft the most, since they're the biggest fish in the sea.

Jon Oltsik

Microsoft is willing to invest in the promotion of genuine software, because we know a healthy intellectual property rights environment is the foundation for building up China's knowledge economy. Microsoft is committed to working with partners to ensure that our customers get the most out of their PCs through the use of genuine software.

Tim Chen

The P/E is reasonable for a software company that's growing at the rate that Symantec is. If anything, I think that their business is going to strengthen as time goes by.

Carl Marker

There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months. Our business does rely on Microsoft's digital rights management software and our business model also relies on Microsoft's ecosystem of device manufacturers.

Chris Gorog

It is not a common buffer overflow. The software has a behavior that people can take advantage of. Obviously we did not intend it to be used in that way.

Kevin Kean

Seeing increasing evidence that open-source software, with its advantages ... will (eventually) dominate core IT infrastructure in the way it dominates Web server software now.

Matthew Szulik

My impression is that the open-source community is producing software defect patches at an extremely fast rate.

Ben Chelf

Services is clearly the largest and fastest-growing portion of the information technology industry, and we continue to extend our leadership position each quarter, ... Our software business continues to gain momentum.

Louis Gerstner

Open source is a large ecosystem, with large and small systems integrators who are delivering software and services in a new way. Some agencies may have relationships with certain preferred partners, and that's terrific. Just make sure the partners have the right level of open-source experience.

Drew Ladner

These conduct restrictions are necessary to allow the structural remedy sufficient time to restore competitive conditions in the software industry.

Joel Klein

We think this will be the end of unwanted software on your computer. Consumers deserve to have control over what's on their computers.

Fran Maier

Companies that receive daily updates of good anti-virus software could nip this thing in the bud.

Lev Grossman

Particularly in the software sector, so much of what's going on with these stocks now has nothing to do with the fundamentals. It all has to do with this M&A activity that's going on and the uncertainty around it.

Brendan Barnicle

We are increasingly a software company ... we've kind of hit a tipping point.

Brian Mcfadden

We are honored that the INPUT Government Technology Solution has been recognized as one of the best offerings in the software and information industry. We are proud to provide these services to the 30,000 members of the INPUT Network? who rely on our industry-leading information to successfully compete in the government marketplace.

Peter Cunningham

Its engineers have not necessarily proven that they can ship software on time. Maybe Microsoft needs less heroic engineering and more of a business focus.

Rob Helm

Our software has been downloaded more than a million times.

Jorg Janke

The government is planning to promote legitimate software use among enterprises and companies.

Wang Ziqiang

It's really a software management system that can be either nationwide or geographically targeted.

Dennis Specht

We will let our software do the talking for us. I'm not out to prove or disprove anything.

Fred Lewis

We're still working on exactly what's wrong. We could do a software patch to get through the problems we've seen.

Bob Castle

I put his address in and that gives him predator status in our software.

Katherine Miller

We are beginning to see free software that is really good. The problem is that the people who would benefit most don't know it exists. People who don't want to spend a lot of money on software aren't the hard-core technology enthusiasts.

Rob Jones

I don't think it is asking too much for Cyber Patrol and other software companies to tell the American public exactly what their software blocks.

Chris Hansen

We're watching the effort being made by the market leader, the company that has been proactive to reaching out to software companies.

Nancy Anderson

A recent consumer survey we carried out in the UK indicated that there is a discrepancy between people's attitude toward physical theft and toward software theft. People will say that they would report someone who was stealing from a physical retailer, but not someone downloading an illegal copy of a software program.

John Lovelock

We have developed special software and applications to support Chinese users but we won't launch specifically designed products for mainland users.

Katie Lee

We want users to be able to choose their own hardware and software platforms, ... If they want to use IBM, they can. If they prefer HP, they can too.

Bill Wohl

The market-leading flexibility of the KALIDO enterprise data warehousing and master data management software is based on the technology covered in this patent. The additional distinction of having our technology US-patented further bolsters the uniqueness of our software - a claim that was first validated by the UK-patent in 2003.

Andy Hayler

Demand for tech talent in Waterloo Region is intensifying. From software developers to seasoned sales professionals, firms here are on the grow and aggressively engaged in talent acquisition.

Iain Klugman

The auditors will look at that and the entire software program and always find something, then report it to management. If anything is out of line, we're going to find it.

Andrew Beveridge

Most computer users don't think about backing up their software until the day they lose it.

Don Rittner

The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression.

Claudia Alexander

We are very disappointed with our software sales results. In spite of our best efforts to work closely with the investment community to set reasonable and attainable expectations for the quarter, the softness of the market had a significant impact on our results. Once again, we had several large deals that did not come in at the end of the quarter.

Beth Chappell

Users provide the real quality of this meeting. They tell it like it is. They share ideas and share software, too. SHARE and its SHARE library invented the open source concept.

Robert Rosen

I can assure you that all the government departments that had pirated software have seen it replaced by legitimate product.

Wang Ziqiang

From my earliest days developing business software, I have always believed that design has to start with the user, ... Businesses around the globe need to look for innovation by focusing on their customers.

Hasso Plattner

A total systems perspective - developing our software in a setting analogous to where it will be used - provides direct experience and new insights about how people and automated systems can be designed to fit together.

Bill Clancey

The pace of change in [software] pricing models is accelerating. A lot of software companies are still trying to figure out how to do multi-core processors .?.?. and still get the same level of profitability they had before.

Dave Edwards

This proves to me that there is still a lot of competition in the marketplace and, particularly, that SAP does not have a lock on the market. What this says is that there's a lot of issues in a competitive deal and that the market system still works for enterprise software.

Joshua Greenbaum

Legislation will not displace the need for anti-spam software, ... There is a strong need for it and that need will be around for several years.

Paul Ritter

I generally have a problem with Microsoft limiting software to those people who buy SA, ... And this is strange. Microsoft says that unless you pay a premium [by signing up with SA] you can't use this [single disk image] to deploy our product? That's just a way to irritate customers.

Paul Degroot

There's no such thing as a large software project that's perfect.

David Treadwell

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Saul Klein

One of the things that investors are gradually starting to recognize is that business software is very sticky.

Richard Davis

Because of the extensibility of the Scala InfoChannel® platform we were able to integrate database information and the Vista software system into a custom cinema experience unique in New Zealand.

Glenn Anderson

We do have standard protection on every desktop. But shoot, we're seeing viruses all the time that our software doesn't catch.

George Taylor

We provided engineering design support, software and operator training. It's the most modern hockey arena in the world.

Dave Janke

The software says what blends will work better for your fields and crops. So instead of five piles of fertilizer and saying, 'This goes on that field and that goes on this field,' this allows for one custom fertilizer on all the fields.

Terry White

Standardization of handset software platforms across mobile phone manufacturers offers significant opportunities for Vodafone.

Dirk Wierzbitzki

As a category, games represent 50 percent of consumer PC software sales. This is an opportunity for volume growth in disc drive shipments as the Xbox attracts a large portion of this audience.

Brian Dexheimer

[First, most rely too much on unnecessarily complex charts. With professional investors using their own high-end charting software,] there's no reason for companies to have overly fancy tools on their own investor-relations sections, ... Complicated charts scare novice investors.

Jakob Nielsen

You're adding more complex software, more hardware devices, home-based Internet applications. These things interact and they don't always work together. That's going to make this a bigger problem.

Jeff Blyskal

They're positioning on-demand as a niche offer. That's smart. If I was SAP, the last thing I'd do is validate on-demand as the biggest trend in the software industry. They'd be crazy to do that.

Jason Maynard

The Justice Department's awareness of Microsoft's adroitness and adaptability is much keener than it was in 1994, when the previous consent decree was being negotiated. In addition, the group of attorneys at Justice is much more knowledgeable about the software industry than they were six years ago.

Bill Kovacic

[However, he sees both sides of the issue. In defense of the states,] if you accept the concept of sovereign immunity as a valid doctrine, it's a reasonable exercise ... States aren't like a business; they don't sell software.

William Mcgrath

There has been a move away from best-of-breed CRM software vendors towards companies like SAP that offer complete suites integrating CRM with other enterprise applications.

Bill Wohl

Frankly, we question the timing of this announcement on the heels of one of the largest mergers in the history of software.

Gregg Moskowitz

The insurance industry can benefit significantly from a comprehensive library of software resources. A service-oriented approach to providing access to library components is a flexible, cost-effective way to help organizations determine which components they may require to better manage their business.

Jason Bloomberg

Having the right software management applications can significantly reduce the regulatory burden. Our products help companies implement IT controls for compliance management without the need for complex new infrastructure projects.

Ben Forsyth

Microsoft has made a number of fixes to the previous version of their CRM software, including putting all of the tasks in a single account, ... This version makes it much easier for companies to access the information they need.

Sheryl Kingstone

But not an insurmountable one. It could probably be done in software.

Craig Mathias

Get a great accountant or [take a] community college course and learn software programs like Quicken to keep your books, ... You skip this aspect of the business, and you'll be very sorry.

Laurie Rozakis

It is costly and they don't have the processes yet. They haven't figured out why they need [the software].

Bill Glassman

It's just a thinly disguised way to sell software, and actually, it's not that thin.

Rich Debrino

The question is whether Sun can train its sales force to sell these things. Sun periodically wants to get into and not get into software.

Michael Goulde

When comparing software deployment solutions, it's important to consider the hidden cost implications associated with equipment, training, time to implement and other pre-requisite software licensing.

Tony Thomas

We wanted to build software that would combine the different physical tools [students] use in their learning into an easy to use electronic workspace.

Phil Webb

If you're printing 1,000 tags monthly, about a medium size supplier, you are probably spending between $3 and $4 per tag. This includes software, hardware, integration, and servers to manage the data. We come out with a capital cost of about $60,000.

John Keenan

What's really important about software development is implementing the features your customers ask for. That's what we've done with the addition of DVD burning and what we will continue to do in the future.

Donna Johnson

They are among the three most profitable software companies in the high tech industry.

Paul Wick

We are happy as long as the conditions of use under which a work was purchased remain respected. Alternate software players are fine as they include the original conditions of use.

Olivia Regnier

Overall, the macro-environment was somewhat challenging for software vendors in the third quarter, but we are expecting to see in-line quarters from most of the companies.

Karen Haus

It's fair to say that we're aware of consumer concerns on the installation of this software on Sony products. For now we're going to wait for more facts to become available and then evaluate what, if any, action is appropriate.

Paul Bresson

The software business is increasingly important for Sun. I do anticipate they'll continue to make acquisitions there. That needs to be part of the strategy.

Dion Cornett

Any country that can produce that many scientists and engineers has a natural potential of being a significant software producer.

Leo Apotheker

Our goal is to encourage everyone to try the product. We think that free phone support is a good way to encourage a lot of people who might otherwise shy away from trying beta software.

Dean Hachamovitch

Although there is some political instability in a country like India, it really doesn't impact the software development, primarily because all of this work is done through satellite links.

Sunil Wadhwani

Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.

Grady Booch

Including Yahoo! Music player as a preinstalled software on Toshiba's notebooks gives users another way to enhance their multimedia experience.

Jeff Barney

It's all about accelerating the collaborative design process, and involving more people in that process without the need for a special viewer or CAD software.

Rak Bhalla

Segue's quality optimization products and services will add significantly to our growing portfolio of application lifecycle management solutions. This is a natural extension of our focus to expand beyond development and into software delivery, helping companies increase business value through successful software initiatives.

Tod Nielsen

I have a computer background and I started writing software several years ago to help address the needs of having multiple offices and what we were going to do with our charts, ... the records that we had in any one office would have to be delivered back and forth in anticipation of people's visits. Not only that, if someone showed up impromptu, we wouldn't have their records.

Richard Goldstein

The possibilities of that tie-in are endless if one contemplates the possibility of software and tools delivered over the Internet and paid for by online adverts. This also gives Microsoft the ability to control its own destiny and eliminate the service that Yahoo is providing selling the ads.

Jonathan Spira

Most of the big money is spent [by schools] on hardware, and it costs us money to develop software.

Stephen Uden

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Jeff Tarter

Bands who have the same software at home can save a lot of money making records, because they can make the record at home and then take it to professionals who mix it and tweak the audio. It costs a lot of money to go in and track everything at a nice studio.

Lauren Hoffman

With most other offerings, you have to buy separate hardware accelerators to achieve the same performance levels that our software-only solution delivers. For 20% of the cost, our customers get the same or better performance across their WANs as well as the option to add high availability clusters for comprehensive application protection.

Bob Williamson

We want an XML format so that we can get rid of the 40 or so instances of files from different software releases. We don't want to be application-dependent when databases get too old.

Lois Hughes

If software manufacturers and computer manufacturers act responsibly, they have nothing to fear.

Reed Kathrein

Handheld device manufacturers interested in developing and running device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably can look to the combination of Wind River and Intel technologies for their devices.

John Bruggeman

I don't think many software vendors would be willing to run the risk of deliberately placing a back door in their software. The benefits compared to the huge risk of disclosure simply aren't worth it.

Thomas Kristensen

That was an interesting point of view, but I still think there will continue to be a market for packaged enterprise software.

Frank Gens

We remain cautiously optimistic on Microsoft as the company slowly transitions itself from its reliance on desktop software and continues to roll out its higher growth, server side software.

Christopher Shilakes

If companies are violating the GPL, they don't have the right to use that software. And if they don't have the right to use the software, they're violating federal law if they claim that they do.

Jay Michaelson

Both camps are still waiting to see what the software industry will do.

James Kim

Educators throughout the world have come to rely on Adobe software to engage and inspire their students to bring ideas to life. The Adobe Education Leader program gives us an opportunity to recognize the efforts of the most innovative educators, and in turn these educators share best practices with their peers.

Megan Stewart

I don't think there's any company-specific news on i2 today (Wednesday). I think it's just the case of a broad rally in the software group.

Brad Reback

There is a tremendous amount of software used by each of the different departments such as finance, tax, and the land-use departments.

John Crovo

Based on IBM's overall strong market position in services, software and components, and the outlook for more favorable growth, we believe the shares deserve at least a market multiple and possibly a slight premium.

George Elling

We're very encouraged by today's decision because as we've said all along, it's very important for our customers and the software industry as a whole to resolve these issues as quickly as possible.

Tom Pilla

It's the inevitable path of all software engineering.

Grady Booch

You have to take the OS-appropriate software security measures in that scenario.

Mike Romo

Doubts about the growth prospects of the software industry have been put to rest. The overall story is intact.

Viswanathan Vasudevan

We've changed the (hardware) problem to a software problem, which we know will lower costs, add much more flexibility and more abilities to fix it.

Mark Spain

The hash value is like a fingerprint; it contains unique information about the user. The software we've developed can automatically search for fingerprints.

Michael Kip

Apparently, more Sun servers are sold running Oracle software than anything else. Weak results and guidance from Sun only serve to compound our near-term worries.

Neil Herman

The technique represents a major advancement over the existing methods used by audio software. It improves the way users can organize, navigate and visualize audio files and how they can interact with music on their audio player, PC or the Internet.

Xavier Serra

You're getting a payback on software just by the money you will save in credit-card fees.

Paula Rosenblum

We've had a number of successive quarters of good revenue growth, basically reflecting fundamental strengths in the market. The Internet is exploding. All of these Internet companies need to make money. They buy our software to do so.

John Little

Usually, if we're going to use something long term, we buy it with Software Assurance, ... So the fact that they're doing a new product release isn't a significant concern to me.

Stan Johnson

A bad license can make it so restrictive that nobody wants to use [the software].

Greg Stein

We have been building the software for the past five to six years (to cope with) SA's complex health-care environment, and will adapt it to fit the Australasian legislative environment.

Grant Newton

One of the goals of our research on software quality and security is to define a baseline so that people can measure software reliability in both open-source and proprietary software projects.

Ben Chelf

The software development kit enables developers to grid-enable their applications very easily.

John Powers

The dream as conceived 25 years ago has not been achieved. Until software becomes the ultimate tool for collaboration, productivity, and efficiency, the work is not done. And there's nothing more fun than doing that work.

Larry Page

Software is not static -- it is constantly changing. You can't just measure the executable; you need to measure the vendor.

Herbert Thompson

Microsoft and Netscape gobbled up market share from all the small independent e-mail firms with nice technology and features. By bundling e-mail into their software, they shut down the marketplace. Look at Qmail. Look at Eudora.

David Passmore

The bottleneck of PC computing is the laborious nature of hierarchical command structures. It limits the user experience and leads to feature underutilization. The 205PRO can dramatically change this. In commercial applications, the productivity improvement is direct and measurable. For the rest of us, it makes software more interactive and engaging.

Chris Shipley

We don't know what they have. If they found a different way to read the number, i.e. manipulate the software, then we may change the software. It's completely hypothetical. We need to speak with them.

Tom Waldrop

A lot of people continue to use Sun on Wall Street. They have a lot of investment in Sun software. What you see in this announcement is they have to broaden their offerings to reach that broader audience.

Jean Bozman

Fundamentally, we don't see their [business] model going over a cliff. But it shifts toward this new model that is software as a service, and ads.

Tom Bittman

This program applies to any type of company that does a lot of software development. This could really help those companies that outsourced some code or programming to maybe say India or the (United Kingdom).

Peter Wong

Today, that's not a worry for us. The idea that other countries might change their law to introduce restrictions [on open-source software] seems unlikely.

Loïc Dachary

I don't think this raises any red flags. It's an intriguing thing but it happens to everybody. Everyone knows that the implementation of software can get tricky.

Charles Payne

The total numbers (of fake sites) must be mind-boggling... The software that's generating these things is pretty sophisticated; you might think (the sites) were real at first glance.

Tim Bray

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

Tracy Lefteroff

IBM had a good quarter. It showed the strength of our business model across hardware, software and services.

Sam Palmisano

It worked so well, we put the beta software to work in production.

Dale Ross

With document applications, there are few choices, which could be a problem in the long term because there are no guarantees with proprietary software that older formats will be compatible with those developed in the future.

Michael Goulde

With the release of our new software, it's never been easier for people to talk to one another for free, and now they can see each other with video as well.

Niklas Zennstrom