Nowadays users are managing software assets in ways they hadn't thought of before.

Paul Henderson

Microsoft isn't going away any time soon, but the role they will play in the future of software will not be the same as it has been in the past two decades.

Sabeer Bhatia

This is Microsoft moving toward offering [all of its] software as a service, ... Microsoft will ease into it because they don't want to give up the product revenue before the services revenue can ramp up.

Rob Enderle

A license can ruin a perfectly good piece of software.

Greg Stein

We made some changes in the software and made sure we wouldn't have a situation where so much input and data came in so quickly. That apparently was successful in addressing the problems.

Jim Steets

The overwhelming adoption of our solutions worldwide clearly demonstrates the demand for professional caliber software in the hosting market. We expect the significant growth that we experienced in the first quarter to continue its momentum in the remainder of the year.

Sandip Gupta

The operators are striving to give users a better mobile data experience; having to insert a card and install software is a hassle for some users, and often a barrier to adoption.

David Gordon

The biggest driver to earnings is always software. If that business does better, that's good for IBM.

Richard Petersen

We get good value out of software because we do due diligence first, but services tend to be significantly more expensive than we expect. Integration of applications is a significant strategic direction that is inhibited by cost.

Larry Reed

It's an Apple experience. The integration, the hardware, the software; every detail has been thought about.

Greg Joswiak

Not all industry CEOs, especially in the software and Internet fields, see involvement in policy as necessarily important to their bottom line. They come from an entrepreneurial milieu and view government as a necessary evil.

Marc Pearl

SUSE Linux users, who number in the millions worldwide, continue to show their support by installing the software in great numbers and seeking more opportunities to collaborate with Novell.

Jeff Jaffe

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Adam Osborne

We've enhanced usability without adding unnecessary complexity. And we've given customers the flexibility to configure and use (the software) exactly the way that suits them best.

Paul Loucks

Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat.

Linus Torvalds

This is the start of a category and there are a number of areas that will require additional investment -- both hardware and software -- to realize the full potential of the category.

Otto Berkes

I think software will take the lead [over hardware solutions]. You name the security player, and they have a management framework coming down the pike. Management frameworks will mature over 2002 and get a sense on how we're going to do enterprise security.

Peter Lindstrom

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Richard Stallman

The IT organization must take into account all deployment recommendations, controls and limitations of the application, and enforce a policy that prohibits installing and operating the software outside these boundaries.

Mark Patterson

Microsoft's business model is not to create branded hardware. They're a software company. Normally, when they put these kinds of devices together, they're reference designs.

Tim Bajarin

With Express Software Manager Professional, we've saved $30,000 to $40,000 just by not having to buy software we didn't need. The investment paid for itself within a year with the reduction of software costs.

Keith Phillips

We are an underdeveloped country without enough funding for expensive software.

Tidiane Seck

There is always going to be demand for electricity and the only problem [for Orion] is attracting consumers. This is not a high-risk type of venture like a software company.

Steve Tuen

It's great that we can work in such a small environment. It lets us get the coolest ideas out rather than working for a huge software developing company with 400 other employees.

Jesse Hathaway

SOA Software is a leader in standards-based SOA Management. This partnership provides our customers with a complete, high-performance, scalable solution for all their Web services security and management needs.

Walid Negm

The hidden check boxes during installation are a common practice for companies trying to further extend their reach onto your computer desktop. Companies have a responsibility to very clearly indicate what is being installed during that process and give a clear opportunity to reject software.

Ray Everett church

It's just your normal PDA, but we have software on it that allows us to eliminate trying to remember to write down data.

Matt Zimmerman

Every fifth clock cycle you have a deterministic message that is sent to the losing port. You monitor the software and it tells you where the issue happened. Then you go directly to that spot and fix it. Previously this was only available in asynchronous memories. When you have a lot of clock skews and rates it becomes a bit more challenging to find collisions.

Sohin Chinoy

A seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

Ray Ozzie

Through open source software, you can dramatically speed up the level of innovation.

Todd Simmons

In the past, software vendors have shied away from anything that looks like a business service because it dilutes their operating margin. We will be very interested to monitor Sage's progress.

David Bradshaw

If we find an error or omission that gets you a refund, then you pay our fee. No refund, no fee. This is especially good for those who do their own taxes, even those who use a software program. If you don't know to check the box, it won't offer you the deduction.

Barbara Agerton

Mac OS X is not invulnerable--it, like any other operating system, has security deficiencies in various aspects of the software. However, the general architecture and design philosophy of Mac OS X, in addition to usage of open source components for most network-accessible services that receive intense peer scrutiny from the community, make Mac OS X a very secure operating system.

David Schroeder

We've shifted from being a Microsoft-centric company to more of an IBM- and open-systems-centric company. We made the decision prior to the software code leak, and it had nothing to do with that. That's under federal investigation.

Yaacov Cohen

Commercially available software should fit most needs.

Larry Allen

A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.

Robert M. Hutchins

It's not that on-demand software can't integrate. It's just that the integration tools in traditional on-premise software are better. The more complex the integration requirements, the better off you'll be with onsite software.

Paul Greenberg

Film executives look at things like star power, film release dates, target audiences and soundtracks. This software is going to give you information that is probably already known.

Boyd Peterson

I really look at these as great application development companies that are taking advantage of our platform, regardless of how they developed or licensed their software.

Bill Hilf

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Ben Williams

We are entering the era of consumer-oriented Web-based services that are not only free, but often outperform expensive software installed on networks. The flow of new technology onto corporate networks should not be stopped, but it must be managed.

Richard Edwards

We believe we're the first software company to do this.

David Harnett

What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications?

Marc Benioff

The buyers of enterprise software applications have indigestion. Many companies have bought these products and are implementing them, but they're not planning on buying more anytime soon.

Chris Mines

It's extremely rare that the developers of any given piece of software find their own security flaws. Almost 100% of the time, it's a third party that discovers and publishes security vulnerabilities . . . I wouldn't even consider subscribing.

Keith Morgan

There are a lot of people in the world that can make software, but there are very few people in the world that can make money off of software.

John Montgomery

You have lots of people from around the world contributing new features to it, testing it, fixing bugs in it -- it's really a community of developers interested in the software and making the software better.

Byron Sebastian

What we're doing is continuing to invest in our automated software quality solutions.

Jeff Schuster

China Unicom's CDMA network needs only a software upgrade to become CDMA2000. It takes a few months to do.

Dave Carini

We were successful in being financed because we have a standard business model. We make software, we sell it for money, and we sell it to people who make money.

Warren Huff

We are gratified to see CA respond so enthusiastically to IBM's call for owners of intellectual property to accelerate interoperability and the adoption of open source software.

Jim Stallings

I think you'll know Nortel as more a software company than a hardware company.

Brian Mcfadden

We selected Rhapsody because we want to give our customers a compelling choice for their music management software and easy access to a leading subscription music experience on the Web.

Bob Lund

Our objective is to support the development of software and IT services that will help scientists and engineers make the kinds of discoveries that will eventually be applied by industry.

Rita Colwell

Bush's visit is happening at a crucial time when the state is being promoted as a hot destination for investments in software and hardware and this will send strong signals to US investors.

Shakti Sagar

It's a free collection of world-class, useful software put together in a convenient installation manner.

Sundar Pichai

I just got the retail box that has our David software in it. This box is in all the software stores in Japan and Amazon.com . We will soon be all over China and Korea.

Fred Lewis

We discovered the breach on Dec. 28. It was due to an error in a line of software code that our local office in Rhode Island that manages the state's portal [NEI] had written. So we immediately closed that breach, fixed that error and initiated a deeper investigation, including a follow-up security scan of the entire site.

Chris Neff

I think it was huge. Toys had a huge couple of days (as did) software, categories we thought would be strong.

Allen Weiner

IBM is uniquely poised to connect multiple development teams through a secured, distributed environment. Systems engineers rely on the IBM Rational Software Development Platform to collaborate and govern their overall software development process.

Danny Sabbah

Our key focus was coming up with technology to help protect users from technology attacks, attacks on the software itself.

Gary Schare

Looking forward, our overall pipeline is healthy and we expect stronger software sales in the second and third quarters.

Henning Kagermann

An important chunk of Apple's market is people who use Adobe applications. Those folks are going to stay away from the new machines until they're sure their software works.

Frank Gillett

We would be happy to see any kind of hardware being shipped without an operating system, or pre-installed with free software. Furthermore, we would be happy to get in contact with any hardware vendor who wants to free his customers this way.

Joachim Jakobs

Since January 2006, we're doing everything on the Internet. We've converted our software to Web-based tools and added mapping capabilities for growers to manage many data layers online. We're totally Web-based.

Lanny Faleide

We are acknowledging that end users who merely open and read government documents that are saved as Office XML files within software programs will not violate the license.

Jean Paoli

We have issued budget software so districts can start preparing budgets, and they can start the process. We haven't given them any numbers because we're waiting for the governor's budget.

Jon Zlock

We weren't in the position to make the investment needed for a single-instance ERP system. You can always spend $2 or $3 million on software, and sometimes you get the benefit, sometimes you don't. We were looking for a low-cost integration strategy we could reuse for a number of different e-business objectives.

Bo Foster

This has required a work-around change in our software.

Lyn Blake

This is the first instance where you actually must go and do a custom install to control them from installing other software, ... Most folks go to the default install and are not expecting to get a whole suite of unasked-for software. That's where the sneaky factor comes in.

Ray Everett church

For the first time, the tools for computerized editing are in the hands of the general public. Today, nearly every PC and Mac ships with basic video editing software built in.

Bill C. Davis

Mistral's forte has always been its expertise as a single source for both hardware and software engineering in the embedded domain. The qualification strengthens our ability to provide high-quality services for embedded product design and development that consistently meet customer needs and enhance customer satisfaction.

Anees Ahmed

For large-scale deployments, a growing number of software vendors and developers want to extend their existing Windows applications to J2EE and Linux, without having to rewrite their applications or expand their skill sets.

Yaacov Cohen

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm.

Christopher Klaus

Our new Access connections software lets [users] identify and switch seamlessly to the best network connection available.

Jeff Dudash

Companies are working towards a rationalization of the software industry because the growth rate is permanently declining.

John Difucci

The programming approach for the Cell BE processor is a different paradigm for many software developers. We are delighted to see how quickly the participants in our early training classes have caught on.

Craig Lund

Eventually, I understood how technical software converts the flat image and 'projects' it onto the plane.

Tania Willis

We do have it on our watch list of viruses that may become an issue. As always, we recommend that customers get their antivirus software updated.

Sal Viveros

I am also one who is in Disagreement with both the definition of Open Source and of The Free Software fondation the body who are certifying software as such , the fact that the words.

Open Source

Open standards are needed for digital technology to continue to develop and create economic growth in the information age. Additionally, open innovation is propelling change in commerce beyond the borders of software and information technology, even into physical goods.

Paul Horn

By being aware and reporting counterfeit software, consumers can help protect themselves and other consumers, which is good for them, good for software resellers and good for the software industry.

Cori Hartje

I don't think investors really appreciate the economies of scale inherent in enterprise software, especially now since it's a much slower growth business. The industry needs to consolidate.

Bert Hochfeld

We understand that the availability of 64-bit applications from software vendors such as ESI is critical in helping our mainstream customers be able to easily deploy, manage, and use Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

Kyril Faenov

If you are an application provider, you just certify for the software stack, and you are golden whether you run native or virtual.

Simon Crosby

My background is in leading companies that offer software products and service solutions to vertical markets, so I feel that this is a business that I can help grow. The current management team is impressive, and the board has other capable directors already in place. The future for this business looks bright, and I am excited to be part of the team.

John Mcconnell

The software, or at least the API will eventually become open source. In an open system, what will drive the market is user experience. People will say 'I love this device' and it will be software that provides this experience.

Rip Gerber

There is indeed such a bottleneck, and if their software does what they claim, it should get wide support.

Bob Wheeler

People need to make sure the security patches on their computer are updated and they have the latest antivirus software.

Sharon Ruckman

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Douglas Coupland

The combination of tremendous competition from converged mobile devices with waning consumer demand for handhelds is forcing manufacturers to search for new or improved solutions that leverage existing hardware and software capabilities.

Ramon Llamas

We are pleased our partnership with Novell now extends to the support of Novell's powerful and popular GroupWise software. This is a great example of how our two companies are jointly advancing the capabilities of Linux across the enterprise.

Brian Miller

We have greatly valued our relationship with Belk as a partner, customer and active member of the JDA user community. We are excited that they have chosen to extend our relationship and look forward to helping them achieve the results that our proven software can deliver at the lowest total cost of ownership.

Hamish Brewer

A significant reason for this trend is customer desire to minimize integration, upgrade, and maintenance issues among the different layers of the software stack. (Customers) also want to deal with fewer providers to ensure better pricing and accountability.

Kash Rangan

Anyone who is afraid [of the bill] can announce that they want to host the software in the reserve.

Loïc Dachary

It's another manifestation of the democratization of software.

Doug Burgum

The idea of remotely monitoring and controlling catering equipment over the Internet isn't new. But nobody succeeded in doing it. Our plug-and-play software and hardware is a major step forward, with the potential to reduce cases of food poisoning in the European Union by more than 113,000 annually.

Stephen Read

Pirated software destroys and undermines our businesses. It is about time the whole industry got behind Microsoft to put a stop to it.

Gordon Davies

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.

Carmi Levy

The real challenge was to get the intelligence right, and the intelligence was in the software.

David Stavens

There's no sales rep, and we are not negotiating, so the price is fixed at $1 per CPU per hour. People are talking about software as a service. This is computing as a service, and no one else is doing this.

Aisling Macrunnels

When these organizations looked back, in terms of criteria they did or would use to select CRM software, product capabilities were not nearly as important as most once thought they were.

William Band

In many cases, a company will pay part or all for an employee's monthly Internet charge but few now pay for hardware or software.

Merle Sandler

Cyber-savvy criminals increasingly use the speed and anonymity of the Internet to sell and distribute counterfeit software, music and videos worldwide. The potential revenue losses to legitimate businesses are enormous.

John Varrone

Customers have a mandate to grow their businesses today. They cannot afford to wait until 2008 or 2010 or 2013 to see if the merged software code of Oracle's multitude of acquired companies yields a viable product.

Bill Mcdermott

He's the one who ultimately gets to decide what's in GPL, but he can't force anyone to use the license. He can ask that there be a bonfire in the square and burn all the impure software, but whether or not people show up for the bonfire is to be determined.

Jonathan Zuck

Compared with previous quarters, which were heavily dominated by software and semiconductors, we're seeing a mix of companies receiving dollars. It's good to see diversity, because it means we're not relying too heavily on one sector.

Randy Stone

Generally, if you buy a software product to prepare your taxes, you must use their system to e-file.

Judy Monahan

As we have done quite a bit of running in the wet already, we decided it was not really worth going out. Although we did do a couple of laps at the end of the day, just to check some new software.

Brian Morgan

In turn, a larger installed base of hardware should lead to higher sales of video game software. In particular, we believe that these price points will appeal to a more mass-market audience.

Gary Cooper

With the software, users can create virtualized pools of data center resources that can be dynamically allocated on an as-needed basis via a GUI management console and automated policies. In the Virtual Iron environment, any application can run on any machine, or be moved to any other machine without disrupting the application or requiring time-consuming SAN or network configuration changes.

Mike Grandinetti

Japanese software will be developed. It will be a breakthrough in Japan.

Robert Bach

Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area.

Adam Adelman

Apple is a hardware company - they build software to sell the hardware. The question really is, Why not support the installation of Windows on their computers?

Ted Schadler

To me, what you're buying with an ASP is not just the software, it's the expertise that comes with it.

Frank Gillman

Transaction growth in the electronic commerce division was in line with our expectations while both portfolio growth in investment services and license sales in the software business were strong.

Pete Kight

Apple provided a solid hardware platform, with an ever increasing suite of software programs designed to communicate using new media.

Roy Weaver

When they go to market and try to sell their computer systems, it's more expensive then [the systems from] the companies using pirated software, so it makes it harder for them to compete, ... They came back and said, 'You really have to help us.'

John Ball

Services-enabled software really is going to change the nature of how almost everyone uses technology, from consumers to small businesses to enterprises, ... in different forms and at different paces.

Ray Ozzie

Make software that you want to use and that you would want to use often. As long as you are making something that you want to use, then your heart will be in it.

Cabel Sasser

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Patrick Mason

This is throwing software licensing on its ear and there won't be just one model emerging.

Bill Willis

While it appears that the license violations originated from assets purchased from a third party, Ideal Hire immediately rectified the software license violations upon completion of a software audit.

Bob Crawford

This blending of the community experience and the work experience within the software that people use on a daily basis is a breakthrough approach enabled by our roles-based design. We're excited about the opportunity this will provide our customers and partners to interact with their peers throughout the year in an efficient and meaningful way.

Doug Burgum

We created knowledge conversion software that converts local names of diseases and plants into modern names.

V. K. Gupta

This should remove a major barrier for any software developers who are interested in innovating and growing businesses on the eBay Platform, but are unsure about the costs. This change will allow developers to explore new business models as they create solutions to enhance the experience of buyers and sellers on eBay.

Greg Isaacs

The end result is that we will be contacting the vendors of these applications, asking them to partner with Novell to port their software to Linux. As you know, numbers speak volumes.

Scott Morris

The small to midsize business segment is a very large part of the hosted market, ... Software-as-service lets companies get CRM in place quickly without having to raid the I.T. budget to do it.

Rob Bois

It's not useful to continue because [the software] clearly is not stable.

Michael Shamos

You need a system that lets you take in new data as the environment changes, and adjust your existing marketing model or create a new one if changes are significant. It's difficult to do that in a timely and systematic manner without software.

Jeff Levitan

Technology is opening up so many more things for us that just weren't around previously. These pieces of software allow us to manipulate the information and analyze it a lot more.

David Rose

Our automation tools will be utilized, so if we're doing mapping, for example, it will create precise maps of the roadways -- if we're doing asset management, where trying to find road signs in imagery, we have software to do that ? if we're utilizing imagery to find 3D models, we have patented tools that can do that with imagery.

Jamie Retterath

We can push the conductor bundles as much as 3/16 of an inch, though it's rare we have to do that. For analysis, the software report is dumped to a spreadsheet. This data guides the coil-winding team in loosening the clamps and tweaking the alignment of the conductor layers, helping us get the coil in the right place with minimal manipulation.

Steve Raftopoulos

In the past, someone would look at a problem, write some code, test it, improve it by hand, test it again and so on. The problem is, software is becoming larger and larger and less and less manageable. So there's a trend to make software that can adapt itself. This is a really big item for the future.

Sebastian Thrun

This is a real problem only if you are working in a high-tech field or biotech or anywhere where there is highly-competitive software development or research and analysis going on.

Pam Dixon

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

Fred Brooks

There are lots of good reasons why IT end-users will upgrade infrastructure -- and that's hardware and software -- (at the) tail end of this year.

George O'connor

We just don't know enough about this technology, how it works, or what it is used for. It matters to a lot of people that these programs and software exist. We don't really know to what extent the government is mining personal data.

Marcia Hofmann

Oracle had gotten to valuations that it probably didn't deserve yet and the sell-off is a reflection of concerns over valuations. It's still a very good software company. We expect a little slower revenue growth but overall, they are an impressive company.

Kevin Caron

The real magic is the community process – it has nothing to do with the software.

Bill Hilf

That will come from the software company you used to file within 48 hours.

Carrie Resch

In addition to the costs of the software itself, organizations will encounter other up-front costs, including those resulting from the need for new hardware, administrator and end-user training, configuration and deployment of the new operating system, compatibility-testing, and possible re-engineering of application software.

Arthur Andersen

There's something wrong with the way we're sending it, but nobody can figure out how to fix it yet. It may be working for other people's software, but for my software, it doesn't work.

Phyllis Robinson

By filing these lawsuits, we hope that auction purchasers will understand that software offers are not always what they appear to be.

Matt Lundy

[At least one analyst was unimpressed.] 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

You literally tune the system from the atoms and molecules to the software at the other end to get the maximum possible benefits.

Bernard Meyerson

Microsoft is going to give the ability to take software, implement it and offer real-time risk-based approval of mortgages. That's not happening for most lenders today.

Jaime Punishill

Investing for yourself doesn't have to be risky, frustrating or stressful. With the Value Stock Selector software it can be easier, safer and most of all, very profitable.

Mark Hing

They have a great hardware product, but they've been shut off from businesses and consumers who want to run PC programs, and now they have the software that will allow that.

Ted Schadler

We are breaking the IOS functions into separate units so that a software upgrade or patch can be added without shutting down the entire switch. Simplifying the software certification and deployment processes is a big benefit for our customers.

John Yen

There are a handful of very bright [13]-year-olds out there who can do remarkable things, and there are not-so-bright [13]-year-olds who have access to software designed by others to [detect] and explore security vulnerabilities.

Steven Aftergood

For this market, the storage needs to be customer installable and easy to manage and our software is the key to that.

Pat Lee

In addition to increasing their understanding of web vulnerabilities, the most important thing enterprises can do to secure their data is to use web site vulnerability scanning software, and to scan applications every time there is a code change.

Nick Galea

The third quarter marked another strong performance for SAP. We had record third-quarter software revenues, we gained share against our peer group, and we extended our lead in the U.S.

Henning Kagermann

It really depends on what degree of accuracy you're looking for. If it's just crashing a plane, that takes no more competency than crashing a bus. There is software available. It comes up and it's a 757 flight deck. A friend of mine pulled it up and it's Chicago's O'Hare Airport and there is the Sears Tower Building. You might be able to practice this on your home PC.

Dave Esser

With the addition of Horizon, we now have over 500 consultants in this line of business. We expect to cross-train these consultants in the suite of Ross, Pivotal, and IMI products offered through software.

Rick Marquardt

Now that we're selling our own software products and development services, consulting only makes up about 30 percent of our revenue.

Kevin O'brien

Companies in the Pacific region who may have experienced deep cuts during the technology downturn are beginning to expand and require additional IT staff to support this growth. Web and applications developers, database administrators, networking professionals and software engineers are in particularly strong demand.

Katherine Spencer Lee

The proposed shift in software will be paid for by the taxpayers, businesses, and regular citizens of Massachusetts.

Tom Schatz

One of the things I really believe in is efficiency. That means software applications that can easily port and run [on AMD chips], efficient processors from a power management standpoint, and things that can be put into the silicon to make the user environment more friendly and robust.

Phil Hester

Overall, we are pretty optimistic. We think the September and December quarters will be good ones for the enterprise software providers. The business software cycle is on the rise, rebounding nicely from the Y2K problem of last year and the successful transition from client-server architecture to Internet architecture software.

Bob Austrian

There are already Chinese software companies, operating in China; they are fast learners ... If there will be a large software company emerging in Asia, it is likely to emerge in China first.

Leo Apotheker

This business is atrophying. When you look at Microsoft's dominance in the software industry, it's the dominance of the desktop world. And that is not the future; it's very much the past.

Joseph Farley

I am now writing to seek confirmation of the provenance of the software you have developed in order to compete with Focus. Our main concern relates to the speed with which you have developed your product.

Frank Murray

We spent about $140,000 for the rollout at the pilot site, which included everything from beginning to end - software, licensing and consulting.

Jason Whiteside

In five years, I can see the emergence of a Chinese software company.

Leo Apotheker

As the operating system is necessary to a new computer, the requirement at this time is specifically focussed on this type of software.

Wang Ziqiang

We thought about it and said we've put Java on a billion and a half cell phones. We know about putting software on small devices.

Roger Meike

VARs are showing confidence in us to deliver high-availability features and remote-management software available before only on higher-end systems.

Stuart Mcrae

Sharing your experiences is what really makes open source such a valuable model. As long as people participate, [the products] grow and evolve. It's critical, especially when pursuing [service-oriented architecture] software development, to be responsible individuals. You can't take and not give something back. There's no free ride with open source.

John Mcmanus

We determined that part of the problem was with software we were getting from an outside vendor, and we're continuing to improve the experience. But we're telling our customers to expect a three- to five-day wait [for the port]. You need to be realistic.

Marc Siegel

Our customers and business partners recognize that Descartes' software-as-a-service solutions help improve delivery performance and productivity, and this is in turn prompting them to refer to us new opportunities to demonstrate our value.

Arthur Mesher

For the first time companies like Yahoo will have a powerful tool to identify software applications that respect consumers and a means to monitor and enforce compliance over time.

Doug Leeds

The stuff comes in as a craft item so it's never inspected. We're working on a software key that the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service [a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture] can identify when it comes through.

Arthur Tucker

With this acquisition, CA will be the only company to address the management of applications, IT assets and users across all hardware and software, from the mainframe to the distributed environment.

John Swainson

Until now, the virtualization market has been dominated by high-end solutions consisting of software (snapshot, replication, etc.) running on high-end chassis hardware (Cisco).

Frank Berry

The Department of Justice received the case less than two weeks ago, and it could not evaluate the highly fragmented enterprise software marketplace in such a brief time.

Jim Finn

I suspect that software is going to drive this generation of products much as it drove the prior generation. Nintendo has proven itself a master of coming up with software that has play value.

David Leibowitz

The initial conception for Vista was to be exactly that kind of dramatic leap forward on a number of fronts. But we're 10 years further down the boulevard of history. The software is incredibly complicated to build.

Brent Williams

There's no software out there to do what we did. This has been a significant collaboration of people. There was the research, anthropology, scientific theory, then changing it to the three-dimensional world.

Jeffrey Schwartz

They sell complicated software to real customers.

Richard Davis

Microsoft loves spinning grand schemes, and this is another grand scheme. They will position everything they do now under this software-as-services banner.

James Kobielus

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineers with years of experience in the mobile industry, that they are now taking the exact opposite legal position.

Jonathan Sacks

They may not have the pricing power that other companies have and the margins are under pressure even though the volumes are quite all right. I am much happier with the software side of things, which seem in a stronger position to benefit from the investment cycle.

Rolf Elgeti

People downloaded it a lot in the beginning to create their play lists and then didn't do much after that, ... Some people downloaded zero songs. They downloaded the [software], played around, looked at it, and decided they didn't want to do anything with it.

Julie Weber

Instead of making doubly sure, we're making triply sure that there are no inadvertent mistakes slipped in with any new systems or software that could cause a problem.

Burke Stinson

Banks could download the software to any device you have and this could be your token to authenticate to the bank. We can proliferate the technology more readily for either the consumer or enterprise.

Art Coviello

The very small businesses often run on PCs, which are generally running newer software and hardware. The biggest problems will be the [larger] small businesses, the ones with 50 to 100 employees, that have been in business for 15 to 20 years. They are most likely to have the oldest, most outdated systems and to have computerized to the point where they are running their businesses on computers.

John Gantz

People are getting out of telecom equipment and seeking out more defensive areas. Chip and software stocks are seeing some interest but very, very selective buying as the recovery there is fragile.

John Hatherly

Our export function is also supported by enterprise relationship management (ERM) software that provides full order processing-right from acceptance of the order through to dispatch and invoice. It is fully integrated with our financial ledgers, manufacturing and distribution functions. It also allows sales analysis and reporting features.

Barbara Russell

We attach very, very, very, very much importance to open source software. In this nation we consider artistic and scientific creation key, so we want to protect small companies that create and service open-source software.

Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres

[B]y reducing software development complexity associated with user experience, we hope to ensure that the presentation layer of applications will not be compromised, making user experience a foremost consideration within both homegrown or packaged line of business enterprise and end-user applications, at significant benefit to organizational and end-user productivity.

Soma Somasegar

Our intention was to make it easier to access and use the tools UPS.com offers. This issue never came up when we piloted this software. No customer ever brought it up.

Steve Holmes

It's a much more complex set of software.

Tony Iams

Open source is one of those odd phenomena that crops up from time to time that is good for everybody. The software is invariably good quality, and it's free, so it's ideal for any area that does not convey a competitive advantage.

Steve Howe

When I came here, we were 85 percent or more hardware. There were very few IBM fellows in software. Software was just stuff to make the hardware work.

Paul Horn

Through the Hibernate Solution Certification Program, we're offering a standardized framework for testing performance and compatibility with leading data connectivity software.

Shaun Connolly

At the end of the day, downloading software was a task that takes time and fortitude from consumers.

Karim Meghji

Traditionally our slowest month, August saw a material increase of 61.9 percent in new software license revenue compared to August of fiscal year 2005.

Charles O. Jones

What we have seen is an increased awareness of the need for a disaster plan. All the images on TV and the newspaper had an impact on everybody, certainly when people think about their software and hardware and the survival of their business.

John Mcpherson