Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week – Oct. 18th

“A display server is a fundamental part of how an operating system works.” –
Canonical’s Ubuntu product manager, Richard Collins explaining the importance of Mir in the Ubuntu 13.10 Linux release (eWEEK)

“From the very beginning, we have based our community on sharing code and sharing knowledge”

Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer, OpenStack Foundation (eWEEK) 

“At this point, users everywhere should be outraged that Oracle feels a quarterly patch cycle is sufficient to keep them safe”

Tyler Reguly, technical manager of security research and development for Tripwire (eWEEK)

“A lot of complexity arises from the fact that Hadoop is at the bottom of the stack for storage and data processing, and there is a rich ecosystem of components on top”

Arun C. Murthy, release manager of Apache Hadoop 2 and founder of Hortonworks, (Enterprise Apps Today).

“We’ve seen steady increases in broadband adoption rates over the years, so reaching this point was inevitable”

David Belson, author of Akamai’s State of the Internet report (Enterprise Networking Planet)

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at  InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist