Vendor Quotes

Look at this. It`s worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless.

(With the 19 state laws already passed and Congress focusing on the issue, even enterprise customers normally opposed to regulations recognize that a national law is likely, said Kevin Brown, vice president of marketing for Decru Inc., a storage security vendor.) In today`s legislative environment, I don`t think you`re going to get a bill that just cancels the state laws, ... They`d love to have less regulation in general, but in this case, I think everybody`s fairly realistic. What enterprises are looking for is guidance.

In the mainframe world, contracts state that if I go out and trade my IBM mainframe for one that`s twice as fast, then I have to go back to the vendor of the software and pay more money, ... Companies like BMC and CA have done very nicely over the last 10 years, and certainly over the last 5 years, when MIPS growth was just outrageous.

That will probably happen in a separate release once we make an acquisition or form a strategic relationship with a best-of-breed vendor in that area.

(The lobster vendor was one of two new seafood businesses that set up shop on the roadway between the Coliseum and horse barn and the fence adjacent to State Fair Boulevard, facing the additional challenge of attracting customers in a location that had no vendors at previous State Fairs.) I heard there was nothing but horse trailers here before for years, ... We`ve got two obstacles to overcome. The traffic pattern is not ingrained, the way they walk around here. I hope they want to come and explore the new area and see.

A lot of people think their vendors can solve this problem for them. We believe a vendor can provide a HIPAA-ready system, but only an organization can make it compliant. And it`s not a one-time process like with Y2K. It`s ongoing,

It applies to Red Hat distributions only. It will attract those who want Red Hat as their primary service and support vendor. In the data center, however, it may not be that attractive for exclusive open-source software stacks vs. hybrid commercial and open-source software stacks.

We have crashed Web sites. All of a sudden the Web site disappears. Well, then the listener thinks that well, maybe Kim got it wrong. Maybe I wrote it down wrong. Maybe I spelled it incorrectly when really, that particular vendor just couldn`t handle the traffic that generated from that particular recommendation.

It`s not right for the oil companies to artificially bring prices up for gasoline already in the ground because of market predictions - especially when the price is not attributed to additional expenses by the vendor.

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