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Say What? The Week’s Top Five IT Quotes

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Jun 18, 2010

“It would be disaster if only one or two companies came to control the cloud…. We don’t want Amazon or Google becoming the equivalent of Microsoft’s Windows. We want a diverse and competitive cloud.”
“I’ve never seen a document describing the ROI of restrooms and urinals. There are some things you are going to install because they are important to have in an enterprise.”
“Virtualization is proof CPUs are the wrong size. A virtual machine’s job is to carve your CPU up into smaller CPUs. We say why not just buy smaller CPUs?”
“The volume of data for business analytics is now so large, diverse and increasingly unstructured that the relational model needs to join all the other technologies from the 70s and 80s as an antique.”
“The app will exploit the new hardware feature of the new phone, employing the forward-facing camera to transform your iPhone into a crystal clear high definition vanity mirror.”

“It would be disaster if only one or two companies came to control the cloud…. We don’t want Amazon or Google becoming the equivalent of Microsoft’s Windows. We want a diverse and competitive cloud.”

Michael Nelson, a visiting professor of Internet studies at Georgetown University, warning about the dangers of consolidation in the market of cloud-services providers. (eSecurityPlanet)

“I’ve never seen a document describing the ROI of restrooms and urinals. There are some things you are going to install because they are important to have in an enterprise.”

JP Rangaswami, CIO of BT Design, a unit of British telecom giant BT, defending the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. (CIO Update)

“Virtualization is proof CPUs are the wrong size. A virtual machine’s job is to carve your CPU up into smaller CPUs. We say why not just buy smaller CPUs?”

a Web server based on Intel’s Atom processor

“The volume of data for business analytics is now so large, diverse and increasingly unstructured that the relational model needs to join all the other technologies from the 70s and 80s as an antique.”

Algebraix Data

“The app will exploit the new hardware feature of the new phone, employing the forward-facing camera to transform your iPhone into a crystal clear high definition vanity mirror.”

DLP Mobile

New York Times

Say What? The Week’s Top Five IT Quotes

“It would be disaster if only one or two companies came to control the cloud…. We don’t want Amazon or Google becoming the equivalent of Microsoft’s Windows. We want a diverse and competitive cloud.”

“I’ve never seen a document describing the ROI of restrooms and urinals. There are some things you are going to install because they are important to have in an enterprise.”

“Virtualization is proof CPUs are the wrong size. A virtual machine’s job is to carve your CPU up into smaller CPUs. We say why not just buy smaller CPUs?”

“The volume of data for business analytics is now so large, diverse and increasingly unstructured that the relational model needs to join all the other technologies from the 70s and 80s as an antique.”

“The app will exploit the new hardware feature of the new phone, employing the forward-facing camera to transform your iPhone into a crystal clear high definition vanity mirror.”

InternetNews Staff

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