56 Quotes by Laura DiDio

The percentage of customers who say they are actively looking to replace Microsoft has gone up. When it comes down to it, some people aren't going to be able to do it (migrate off of Windows and Office). But where Microsoft can be replaced, it's become a real fashionable thing to do.

With the new products, Sun is targeting about 20 percent of the market that has high-end servers. But they have a core constituency firmly in their camp.

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Security is an ongoing battle. Microsoft can never declare victory. But clearly, Microsoft has made great strides hardening the OS.

So far, the results have been less than stellar.

Now we'll all have to go cold turkey, given that the UI goes to the heart of all the applications we use, ... And it's going to take people some time to get used to all the changes.

China is the hotspot right now, obviously for its enormous market opportunity. If you're a technology company and you're not thinking about China, then you're already behind.

It brings us to the basic question of usability vs. security,

I think that the training benefits are the most valuable to customers because that's something that has been slashed out of budgets. Any time these folks can get out and mingle and talk to professionals and have it bundled in as a free service, that really does add to the value of a Microsoft license.