Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week | Internet News

Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week

May 18, 2012
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“Zuckerberg doesn’t think about his wealth.”

David Kirkpatrick, author of ‘The Facebook Effect,” commenting about the Facebok IPO (Bloomberg)

 

“The Internet is a big multi-tenant network.”

John Engates, CTO of Rackspace taking aim at the myth that a multi-tenant public cloud is not secure (eSecurityPlanet)

 

“I wish we had more management for virtualization in initially. By not doing that, it forced our customer base to go back to the proprietary model with hypervisors.”

Paul Cormier, Executive Vice-President of Red Hat, taking about regrets he has over the last 10 years of Enterprise Linux (ServerWatch)

 

 

“If the newest and most exciting thing at SAP is the acquisition of SuccessFactors, well, then God help SAP, because that just isn’t that exciting.”

Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff berating his competition during Salesforce’s Q1 earnings call (EnterpriseAppsToday)

 

“When we started out, many people thought that all the server vendors would hate virtualization, but the opposite has happened.”

Steve Herrod, CTO of VMware commenting on how virtualization is now embraced by server vendors (InternetNews)

 

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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