"I think this is a great proof-point for Linux. It's an amazing achievement for the whole community. This can be seen as a confirmation of the superiority of the open development model."
- Kerry Kim, enterprise Linux solution manager at Novell, commenting on IBM's decision to use Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) as the underlying operating system for its Watson supercomputer, which won the Jeopardy challenge against two top human contenders this week. (Linux Planet)
"The traditional boundaries don't really apply anymore. The iPad is a computing device that can run applications. It has a processor, uses memory and has local storage. How many years have consumers been asking for instant on and longer battery life? Apple's addressed that need and consumers have voted with their dollars."
- DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim, commenting on the research firm's new report that has Apple leading the market in shipments of mobile PCs for the fourth quarter of 2010. (Enterprise Mobile Today)
"We have a tax policy that is just broken. It's at an unreasonabl[y] high rate, and then it's the worst of all worlds. The majority of our growth, almost 70 percent of our market, and probably 90 percent of long-term growth is outside of the country and we have a policy that makes us non-competitive outside the country and then not only doesn't encourage us to bring it back, but penalizes it with double taxation."
- Cisco CEO John Chambers"> calling for changes to corporate tax policy that would dramatically cut the rates American companies pay when bringing profits earned overseas back to the United States. (Internet News)
"Wikileaks is not surprising to anyone here. The State Department learned what the music and video industry learned 10 years ago -- it's easy to move digital files. I think we're seeing some new business models emerge around secrecy because you can't give access about something to a thousand people and expect it to stay a secret."
- Security author Bruce Schneier speaking in a panel discussion on cyberwar at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. (eSecurity Planet)
"What you're seeing is this collapse -- this lack of differentiation -- that's going to happen between what is a consumer technology and what is an enterprise technology. What the enterprises really want is manageability, security. There's an entire webOS roadmap to build in all of the security models, so not only is it a great consumer device, but it will be the best and most friendly enterprise device that allows the enterprises to manage it, control it, secure the piece of information that's important to the enterprise -- but all in one device experience.
- Phil McKinney, CTO of HP's personal systems group, discussing plans for the webOS software the computer giant acquired as part of last year's $1.2 billion purchase of Palm. (Seattle Times)
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