29 Quotes by John Pescatore

The Phone.com approach lets you get all the way to your application server.

The good news is the termites are no longer eating the bottom floor of your house. The bad news is they're eating top floor.

The open-source community hasn't learned to do bare-knuckle marketing yet. But every time Microsoft has these problems, it helps Linux in a very big way.

We don't want good-guy software to allow bad-guy software to take advantage of it. This was just bad software design by Symantec, as opposed to them trying to take advantage of the OS.

Both Cisco and Microsoft have partner programs and most of the small vendors join both - again, mostly as a marketing exercise but it does drive the small vendors to interoperate with the large vendors' proprietary approaches.

Federal money should be where the marketplace isn't working.

the rise of targeted attacks has poked big holes in a lot of companies' intrusion-detection strategies.

The spreading of the worm has slowed down slightly, but the real cost is going back and cleaning computers.

Princeton is definitely a really tough crew to beat. I think our crew rowed a race somewhere between OK and good -- I think they have a little bit more in them.