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Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week

May 13, 2011
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“People ask me, how did you screw that one up?”

    John Curran, President and CEO of ARIN, speaking at Interop, explaining why IPv6 is not compatible with IPv4. ( EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)

“In one year, we’ve shipped more data than in the entire history of the Internet and this is just the beginning.”

    Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, in a keynote address at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. (Datamation)

“We’re not locked-in, we’re opt-in.”

    Citrix CEO Mark Templeton in an Interop keynote explaining his vision of the post-PC era (ServerWatch)

“The real purpose of IT in this day and age is to help create growth opportunities.”

    Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby discussing the role the CIO in IT transformation. Rebecca Jacoby (CIOupdate)

“It uses Linux, yes, but that’s incidental to the end user proposition.

    Simon Phipps former Chief Open Source Officer at Sun explaining why he doesn’t view Google’s ChromeBook as a Linux laptop. (ComputerWorldUK)

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service ofInternet.com, the network for technology professionals.

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