Barbara Ingram Quotes

About 99.9 percent of everything the customers call in on is an existing problem and you can give them the answer you have already come up with for that particular issue.

Some of these guys get way full of themselves and way out in front, and that creates a set of expectations that go unfulfilled,

After Labor Day, our season pretty much ends,

The role we`re trying to play in the ASP world is principally selling to companies that want to be ASPs. We`ll sell hardware, software and services expertise to help make businesses successful.

These women are often short in stature and they`ve got cup sizes of I and J. It`s just unbelievable,

They`re (Microsoft) offering a relatively simple point-to-point connection set of offerings that is clearly not a preferred style for enterprise-class integration, ... Can it be used at the departmental level? Sure. But it`s not going to be the enterprise integration architecture running hundreds, if not thousands, concurrent applications.

(IBM could be a loser in the deal. The company has a longstanding partnership with Siebel, hosting its on-demand software, which also runs on the DB2 database platform. IBM senior VP Steve Mills acknowledged in a conference call last week that Oracle won`t be warm to that arrangement, but IBM hasn`t said whether it will ditch its relationship with Siebel. Mills downplayed the impact on IBM, saying there are thousands of apps vendors looking to align themselves more closely with the company.) The ecosystem readjusts itself, ... For every action, there is a reaction.

IBM realizes many billions of dollars a year from these relationships,

We wanted something that could have some sustained success. And Isiah felt he needed to do a lot of radical, controversial things just to put us in a position where we could start moving on that.

We don`t generally think that defensive plays are all that satisfying, because they tend to be somewhat short-lived, ... You get myopic when you decide you have to do something that`s purely defensive in nature.