52 Quotes by Gordon Haff

Dell has had a very focused strategy: Don't spend a lot on research and development, leverage the work of others, and deliver cookie-cutter servers and desktops cheaply. That lined up well with the market when saving money was in. But IT managers have to consider more than price now in making buying decisions.

Dell has had a really good run selling essentially cookie-cutter rack-mount servers. But the era of solving problems by just buying more boxes is coming to a close.

A number of companies are starting to look at supercomputing for various data analysis applications.

This isn't a new generation of servers aimed at grabbing a lot of new-to-Sun business. That's what the Galaxy server it just announced is for. But this is a good upgrade.

This isn't even really an open-source issue, although it's received a lot of publicity in that context.

This announcement of yet another no-hassle SPARC system upgrade provides great asset protection to Sun's huge base of applications and customers.

This is about reducing administrative costs more than about security.

This is a bigger story for Apple than for Intel. Apple liked Intel's roadmap better than that of Power PC, and the idea is that they will now sell a higher percentage of notebook computers.

AMD has made some gains in mobile technology, but has been only marginally successful. There is a higher level of integration with notebooks than with desktop PCs, which gives Intel an edge since they are focused on a complete mobile platform.