56 Quotes by Laura DiDio

The metamorphosis of Linux from a free, hobbyist software environment to a major revenue-producing operating system is occurring with the same surety and swiftness of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification,

I'm much more bullish on them this year than I was a year ago. They are making some very strong, bold, and decisive moves to get themselves back on track. 2006 is going to be very interesting.

If you don't have those estimates, how do you do a TCO? That's scary.

If you do not know what is on your network, if you cannot at least estimate the hourly, monthly or yearly cost of downtime, if you do not know how long it takes to recover from a security outage, if you cannot answer questions about the extent of your company's license compliance, then you cannot truly evaluate whether Linux , Windows or Unix is right for your business.

If you get the kids young, they are less likely to defect to Apple.

If you looked at the stock market last year, for the first three quarters the market was down and it made it all up in the fourth quarter,

I really like small companies that aren't public but they'd be ones I'd be watching when they do an IPO.

If I had a mixed environment, I would wait and see the effort it takes to deploy Active Directory and then see if Active Directory or NDS is best for my environment, ... Without redirect, users will have to choose.

For the past few years, the word proprietary has meant 'bad' software, ... But I think people are going to start thinking twice before building their own systems with open-source software in the next year or two.