52 Quotes by Gordon Haff

It is a question of the devil you know.

Particularly with this kind of niche, this isn't really so much about the box, it's about channels and go-to-market. It's about setting up distribution and supply partners more than it is about the right box.

People have tried a lot of special purpose processing devices over the years and, with the exceptions of graphics units and arguably floating point units, general purpose processors have always won out in the end.

Microsoft is going to be very late to the game and will need to overcome a presumption that it will favor Windows.

Microsoft has made a few unsuccessful attempts to become a key player in the supercomputer market but the company could be in a better position for success this time.

Microsoft has built its business on working with third party software vendors and wants to leverage that expertise to the supercomputing arena.

Michael Dell likes to periodically send messages to Intel that Dell does have the option of introducing AMD.

You have to do a lot of running just to stay in place in this business.

The problem is, to be at that nirvana, Apple would have to have the ISVs increase their investment on Apple hardware, at least in the transition. That is very difficult for Apple.