17 Quotes by Al Gillen

Most organizations have Unix servers installed, and they're prepared to manage Unix systems. The question is whether they're prepared to manage large blocks of Unix clients.

Business users typically have concerns about a new Microsoft product, and that concern was proven to be fairly meaningful when that UPnP bug was revealed. They want to wait for those things to happen and get fixed.

For Microsoft to get customers to move onto the most current product, they have to make migration easier and have a lot less touch required on the part of IT managers.

There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.

Open is one of those convenient marketing terms. People bend it to meet their needs.

Plans to use Active Directory are extremely high. The problem is that actually doing that is still sometimes difficult and time consuming.

Microsoft is now taking a viable approach, ... It's a more practical way to go about it.

Windows Vista is going to be a significant release for all Windows customers, including enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses as well as consumers.

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.