41 Quotes by Charles King

The PC remains a severely underutilized resource, and it costs a lot to manage and maintain desktops in a large company. The blade option offers a cost-effective solution. They are space-efficient and come with failover, so management is a lot easier.

We are continuing to have discussions regarding a sale of the business and remain hopeful that a sale can be achieved that will see a leaner and more sustainable business emerging, based on fast turnaround, lower volume and higher margin business.

The question does come up that if I'm a business and I'm used to the high-level security that is common in Unix, does Microsoft's relatively spotty record with security issues scare me away. And is that going to create some kind glass ceiling above which Microsoft cannot proceed?

X86 systems are far more capable than they used to be,

The database is becoming a commodity. It is clear Oracle realizes that and is trying to retool itself as a business line vendor like SAP.

Every time Microsoft nails additional, insubstantial bells and whistles on a new version of Office, they increase the relevancy of Linux alternatives.

The success of that movie certainly opened up eyes around town.

Power prices aren't going down, utilities keep going up -- it's one of those pieces of total cost of ownership that many customers in many spaces haven't realized until months ago.

People running companies with $10 million or $15 million or $30 million in sales, while they are probably pillars of the communities and very successful, the businesses they're running don't have the scale to attract the attention of a company doing $5 billion in revenue.