15 Quotes by John Fowler

During my early years, ... we tried to do everything in the least expensive way possible our public improvements, grading. There was even an aversion to charging developers any amount of money (for public facilities). If we can't do it ourselves, we said, we shouldn't charge the developers.

There's a lot of back and forth on the product roadmaps. We go to AMD and say we'd like the following changes in your product road map. None of these are exclusive, but they take those along with others and go to work on the product roadmap,

Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers.

He (Yen) has got a new-age processor going into a hungry, installed base. I've got a great x86 system that can run any operating system.

I don't know if the market can match the $200-plus billion in sales that occurred in 2006, but there is still a lot of capital that is attracted to real estate.

The challenge is always going to be software. The primary issue is availability of applications to get to broader and broader segments. Also, most companies do not have the technical capabilities to run high performance computing facilities of their own. It takes a lot of power and data center space.