Michael Goulde
Michael Goulde
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Open source today is expected to be 'good enough,' and, most of the time, open-source products meet that expectation or exceed it. When you're paying as much as you pay for Microsoft, by comparison, you expect a lot more than good enough.
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If I'm a company that is primarily using Windows servers and I haven't been a big user of Unix, for me to bring Linux into my environment would be a significant expense. I'd have to get people trained, develop policies and procedures and processes. It's building a whole new infrastructure, and if I can avoid doing that why wouldn't I? If I can make use of open source applications and get all the advantages of open source and still run on Windows, why not? Then I can still take advantage of all the expertise I have.
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We have a great deal of spring merchandise. You see color. I think that is very good for us, not just in Florida and California, but in the whole country. Our customers want to see newness.
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Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot. This gives David the slingshot.
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Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot, ... This gives David the slingshot.
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I think this is a problem for Microsoft only if the company wants it to be a problem.
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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.
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We've converted a lot more than we did last year.
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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.
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We're back in business today. The snow was a little bump in the road. We have a long year ahead of us. Obviously it affected business. We had some good traffic in the 59th Street store.
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Buffer overflow is one of the most common flaws that produce security vulnerabilities in software. It's not a good thing, but it isn't unique either to closed- or open-source software.
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He couldn't tell one good risotto from another good risotto. It was the scene. It was the newness of the restaurant.
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My take is the Mozilla Foundation took a look at this and its reliance on the community and saw a willingness to create a commercial model, and they saw it as the most sustainable way to move forward. It's a way to kick-start adoption of their technologies.
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These companies feel that others are not putting enough effort into research and innovation, and they are doing something about it.