12 Quotes by David Ferris

There is competition among the people who write viruses to create special mischief around New Year's Eve. We think it's a good idea for companies to shut down their e-mail systems for about a 24-hour period. But they also need to have contingency plans for a period afterward so they can fix their systems in the case of time bombs sent earlier.

Mozart was the first major composer who created his own career as an independent businessman, an independent entrepreneur.

One attractive consumer solution is to offer a backup service.

I was struck that Lotus feels very threatened by Microsoft.

Looking at Microsoft's announcements recently you have to wonder what's going to happen to the corporate desktop. I have a theory that they are going to be under threat in the next three to five years.

You all represent a beautiful town we feel is going to be negatively impacted. If we can get the big dogs barking, it will validate this process.

We felt we couldn't set it just next to someone else's law books.

Conceptually, both (antispam and antivirus) are trying to control e-mail coming in and out through policies,

Another reason is that many users will have restrictions on their mailbox sizes for the foreseeable future, ... A flood of spam can cause the message store space to run out, in which case new bona fide incoming e-mail will be refused.