SOAP and XML have often been characterized as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) for silicon-based life forms. An HTML that is readable by software.

James Gosling

Our honest partners have asked us to intervene to help protect those who abide by laws and rules governing software use and distribution. We want to protect the business of honest resellers and try to ensure a level playing field for our partners.

Mary Jo Schrade

The software that resulted is fully appropriate. It is in fact the Linux open-source software for playing movies on your computer screen.

John Gilmore

The goal is not to cover ground that has already been covered, ... The agent knows exactly what you've done to date, and they will know whether or not you have downloaded software that is year-2000-compliant. And they don't have to ask you questions that you may not know the answer to.

David Fowler

HP is adding simplicity for HP-UX customers that also buy their management software. They can overlay this ID management tool for the operating system and reduce wasted resources on server management.

Phil Schacter

In software development, we need to have personal quality assurances from developers that the code they write is secure.

Howard Schmidt

We estimate we'll bring in 300 new customers to the company on the software side of the business in 2006.

Scot Mcleod

We've had an active, ongoing conversation with Microsoft since January about this, and they've been open to hearing our position, ... But I don't know one way or the other how they're ultimately going to react to this. Also, this isn't just about Microsoft. We're focusing on the formats here, not necessarily the software. But wouldn't it be nice not to have to remake the systems?

Peter Quinn

For entry-level businesses that want to migrate from a personal finance product or a spreadsheet, Simply Accounting Basic is the ideal accounting package. With over two-thirds of all accounting software being purchased at the entry-level, Sage Software is committed to serving this part of the market with Simply Accounting Basic.

Laurie Schultz

QuickBooks has become the standard in the business world. When mastered, this software proves to be incredibly beneficial. Not only do we conduct bookkeeping with QuickBooks, we also teach businesses how to become more proficient with it.

Lynn Beare

Networked controllers, and networked storage controllers together with supporting software, will become the strategic platform for application-aware storage.

John Mcarthur

Eighty percent of all revenue is concentrated in 15 enterprise software companies. Eighty percent of profit comes from three companies and over half of that profit comes from one company -- Microsoft.

Ray Lane

The single most effective policy that can be implemented in a corporate environment is to prohibit the use of public-domain and shareware software programs... A blanket policy forbidding their use will go a long way toward providing a measure of security.

John Mcafee

Our software allows agents to send out automatic e-greetings on birthdays, anniversary, the changing of the clocks twice a year. Remembering customers at times they would not expect you to remember them has a strong emotional appeal.

Bob Woehrle

One way to increase the impact that people can have in an organization is to give them access to the information they need. Until now, BI software has been too complex, costly, and disconnected from the software tools people use every day to do their jobs.

Jeff Raikes

When employees forget or lose passwords, they often waste time 'on hold' with a help desk, which costs businesses about $20 for each password reset request. The new software enables employees to automatically secure a new password on their own, in minutes.

Stuart Mcirvine

This is a measure to ensure that all software used on government computers is authentic.

Wang Ziqiang

Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit.

Georg Greve

Our results in the quarter were impacted by delays in closing software sales.

Pete Sinisgalli

If you look at retail today, you'll see very little productivity software sold. If you go into a CompUSA store, you'll see very little software, period.

Paul Stannard

The curtain is coming down on a feeble case presented by the government. In its rush to judgment, the government has failed to stop and learn about the benefits to customers, consumers of the innovation and the low prices that Microsoft has championed and made reality in the PC software marketplace today.

William Neukom

We're finding a lot of software companies with a lot of value.

William Miller

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Tim Berners lee

We estimate that Cisco IOS Software Modularity will reduce the time required to upgrade software on our company's more than 60 Catalyst 6500s from six weeks, given the need for planned outages, which in our case could only occur on the weekends, to less than six hours.

Dave Rogers

We recognize database (software) is proprietary, but in an effort to assist division in responding to the Democratic party, we decided to consent to the release of the database files. This allows the division of elections to do with their files what they want to do.

David Bear

When it comes to media processing, there's a need for maximum flexibility in order to address the widest possible range of customers. There is no one form factor that addresses all requirements, so vendors that are supporting all major platforms and offering both hardware and software variants are in a better position to meet all the emerging market needs in this dynamic sector.

Graham Finnie

A big benefit to software-as-service is that it lets companies get CRM in place quickly without the kind of budget hassles you see with buying applications, ... There's a feeling, especially among small and midsize businesses, that a hosted solution will help realize ROI more quickly.

Rob Bois

This 'commitment' is poisoned - they do it in a way that worsens the situation for free software: because that source code is under Microsoft copyright, developers who have seen the source code cannot re-implement it in Free Software for fear of copyright violation.

Carlo Piana

The entertainment software industry has no reason to run and hide. We do have responsibilities to consumers, and we've been proactive in meeting them.

Doug Lowenstein

A software interface with the CAD will automatically page the person selected to respond.

Bill Hunter

We can't say that the software is now secure. We're going to continue to raise these issues with Sony.

Kurt Opsahl

ISYS has been an integral part of the knowledge management industry for a number of years. The company continues to demonstrate its relevance and success in enterprise search software, despite formidable competition from large, well-known companies. For these reasons, we continue to recognize ISYS as one of the 100 companies that matter.

Hugh Mckellar

U.S. industry says its sales data does not support this claim, and there is no other evidence to show that China has moved forward to purchase and use only legal software.

Chris Israel

Software is an evolving product. It's not static.

Gary Knight

You need to have a system that will handle and track all of that. It's an opportunity for companies that sell that type of equipment, software and services.

Mark Natkin

Companies are under more pressure to develop new product functionality than they are to release secure software. Companies don't put enough effort into making their software more secure.

Chris Rouland

In the computer software market, investors are looking for predictable earnings. Sierra would certainly be in that category.

Michael Wallace

The Microsoft piece fits squarely into that from the point of view of being the operating system platform that Oracle software runs on, as well as having a number of components that serve applications in different parts of the stack.

Jay Rossiter

Wind River shares ACCESS' commitment to helping handset manufacturers and operators provide their customers with a powerful, easy-to-use mobile phone. We believe that the ACCESS Linux Platform is a natural extension to Wind River's device software platform and development suite offering.

Kevin Curry

Travels with Samantha isn't about self-exposure; it comes from the same motivation that leads people to open-source software: the desire to help people build on what one has learned or done.

Philip Greenspun

Borland is an innovator with software development. And our emphasis today is entirely aligned with that.

Rob Cheng

Software developers who find these issues need to remediate and create an audit trail to show who did what to the code and when.

Doug Levin

It is certainly the most exciting introduction of software that Apple has made in a long time.

Roger Kay

Our focus in technology has been in software.

John Wallace

There's a lot of concern about software patents. There's a huge amount of source code out there, but it's not in a usable form that examiners can access.

John Doll

We had elementary students who were doing [image] manipulation with some very sophisticated software. That surprised me, that we had elementary students working at that level.

Angie White

A lot of what they get in the textbooks is hard to apply in the real world. That's where the software comes into play.

Debbie Murry

Part of this is giving clients the ability to define a model, as opposed to forcing the business to adjust to the software.

Scott Nelson

We've got a major investment in our electronics. With all the changes there, the increasing sophistication of the electronics, the hardware and software, it's tough to keep up. We need to stay state-of-the-art.

Richard Callahan

We expect both the rate of customer adoption and ecosystem building to accelerate even further in 2006. Concurrent with accelerated customer adoption, hardware vendors, OEMs, and software vendors are aggressively building products and solutions that enable and facilitate server virtualization.

Raghu Raghuram

Sony's strength is in its software businesses, such as music and movies. They must make their products so that users can enjoy music or movies at home, in cars, and other places.

Osamu Hirose

Quarterly revenues were lower than expected due to a shortfall in software license sales. We are not satisfied with these results. However, our emphasis will continue to be on selling our more than 70 distributed products, which tend to be smaller transactions.

Beth Chappell

Gnash is GPL2'd, and the Free Software Foundation has the copyright. So the standalone player can be used by anyone, but the Flash player code can only be used by other free software projects under the terms of the GPL.

Rob Savoye

In a sense, this is like open-source software, but for hardware.

Neil Gershenfeld

We spent a lot of time building it. A lot of other universities purchased the software.

Peter Briggs

In the old days most software manufacturers provided free support for their programs--it used to be possible to call the WordPerfect Corporation on an 800 number to get free help. Nowadays, you have to have a credit card handy to get help.

Lars Perner

Government is creating history at a rapidly increasing rate, and all documents we save must be accessible to everybody, without having to use 'closed' software to open them now and in the future.

Peter Quinn

If there's going to be an add-on for this or special software for that, there's going to be a very high learning curve for the IT department. You have to figure out if using so many is helping more than creating problems.

Mark Yates

Red Hat is one of the best-positioned stocks in software and should be able to further capitalize on the growing demand for open source.

Jason Maynard

These associations will draw together a global network of enforcement agencies, working together for the greater good of the software industry.

John Lovelock

The OSD specification is a tremendous benefit to organizations seeking to provide a standards-based solution for online software distribution.

Jeff Papows

I would argue that using our software, all things being equal like in NASCAR, our software would give you an edge that could be 10 to 20 percent advantage over the other drivers either in fuel efficiency or in top speed.

Paul Bemis

It is likely that many software update systems -- especially on Linux -- rely on GPG and will require an update to prevent anyone malicious tampering with software repositories.

Tavis Ormandy

The problem is always the software development. It's very typical to find a few people who are really interested in what you are doing and want to buy hundreds of your chips. That's not really a business.

Peter Glaskowsky

Virtual appliances are entire pre-configured systems that include virtual hardware, operating system, and pre-installed software application. Virtual appliances save customers the time and effort to install and configure software.

Raghu Raghuram

Computer worms like Code Red can be used to find potential zombies and automatically install the attack software.

Dorothy Denning

We have asked ISPs to host anti-virus software free on their websites, so that people know and can download them.

Dinesh Rai

IBM is clearly showing that software alone won't solve the totality of SOA challenges.

Ron Schmelzer

We want to make sure that Microsoft is forced to publish the communication specifications, and in a way that competition is possible, including for free software venders.

Georg Greve

We are psyched with the direction they are taking on these broadband media centers. We're very confident that Microsoft's software will be deployed on those. We're very confident about the work we're doing with Charter and it will come to light in the next several months.

Ed Graczyk

Hundreds of patent infringement cases are pending against computer software and hardware manufacturers.

Emery Simon

With these new offerings IBM is taking important steps forward in RFID. IBM is continuously building in RFID, both in the functionality of our software and services that take RFID in new directions.

Eric Gabrielson

Newer software typically doesn't have equivalent reliability, performance or quality-of-service capabilities.

Eric Newcomer

You have an equivalent to random mutation, except it's better, ... It's directed mutation, people constantly trying to improve the software.

Eric Raymond

Our vision for unified communications breaks down today's silos of communication and brings them together into an intuitive experience that puts people at the center. By ensuring interoperability with business-grade communications capabilities from leading providers, we can extend the power and flexibility of software to improve phone-based communications.

Zig Serafin

IBM has decided that being a company committed to open standards, open document formats and free software means ultimately reassessing the patent process and its role in your relationship to your customers.

Eben Moglen

We are proud to add our software offering and talent to the Harris team. Both customers and employees will benefit from the size and resources of Harris, and the long-term commitment Harris has made to the media industry.

Fred Adams

Our software platform is in the final stage and will be available before the end of the year.

Ed Gracyzk

That's clearly an important thing for us. The Chinese government is a major customer of software. We have had a problem in the past with government ministries using illicit copies and the Chinese have made a commitment to stop that.

Emery Simon

We're consulting on how you become better at your software development processes.

Erik Frieberg

The number of on-demand providers is increasing, as is the level of M&A activity in the HR software space.

Erin Traudt

People are imperfect. What we have learned through the ages, though, is that combining lots of people creates a better end result, ... For some reason, we forgot that when it came to developing software.

Eric Raymond

No matter what your stand on software patents, and I oppose them, I call on developers to contribute to the OSDL patent commons project because there is strength in numbers and when individual contributions are collected together it creates a protective haven where developers can innovate without fear.

Eben Moglen

You have health care assets, and health care research, software, semiconductors and agriculture, ... Put it all together, stir in investment, and we can have a strong bioscience industry here. We don't have to be a big as San Diego or Boston to make a profound impact on the state.

Fred Thompson

Just like email, instant messages can be used as evidence in a legal case. So it pays to make sure you have IM and P2P software under control in your IT environment.

Ed Golod

We think that slower than planned progress in developing the graphics chip, or a lack of software titles, is probably the main reason for the delayed launch.

Eiichi Katayama

One of the problems with portable computers is that they are not always on your network. This lets the administrator install the software without having to worry about which systems have it installed and which don't.

Eric Zelenka

[On-demand] is the type of disruptive innovation that has re-energized the single-digit growth software industry and provided a new method for obtaining the type of software that departments of large organizations, as well as small and medium-sized businesses, previously may not have been able to purchase due to cost or lack of I.T. resources.

Erin Traudt

Indirectly, the impact [of LSB] will be large on [enterprise deployments], ... As independent software vendors develop confidence that they can maintain a single Linux binary port for all LSB-conformant distributions, many more enterprise applications will become available.

Eric Raymond

Our software doesn't capture PIN data. And I wish we could have talked about this [with Visa] before the alert came out. We were very dismayed when we heard about it, and we're in conversations now to clear it up with them.

Ed Soladay

A lot of companies want a local office before they'll buy software. To sell in the French market, they want you to be established in France.

Fred Thomas

Software is now facing more challenges than ever before — it's like living on a major thoroughfare, you're going to [need to] ensure more protection. I'm willing to put my personal reputation on the line, and I'm convinced Microsoft continues to take steps to help ensure a safer computing environment.

Fred Gibson

It turns out that the way humans are made, the software-based approach seems to have much more success.

Edward Castronova

To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.

Eric Allman

This training seminar is a great way to provide hands on training for our customers. We hope to reach out in a way that other software companies can not or will not.

Eric Gregory

The fact that this is a very international effort is manifested in the code -- our tools have stronger international support than you will get ordinarily from proprietary software.

Eric Raymond

Microsoft has to figure out a way to use the network to enhance their software. They can link to dictionary.com or thesaurus.com instead of bundling those features into Microsoft Word.

Eric Schmitt

As a leading software company, Microsoft would like to help more people who do not have enough access to information technology change their lives and fulfil their dreams by making use of its resources and technological advantages.

Zuo Jingyun

Our software is not specific to any one piece of legislation. But, if you look at all the legislation out there, it is generally trying to accomplish the same things, so our software works with all the legislation.

Fred Thomas