“Great computer hardware is only a doorstop without great software.”
Charles King
“They're (computer manufacturers) taking price cuts to sell more units, ... That hurts hardware companies' revenues. Since Microsoft charges the same for their products regardless of what PC makers do, that price elasticity helps them.”
Kevin McCarthy
“Sony should concentrate on games, movies and music and software businesses rather than hardware businesses. I'm not quite sure about their concentrating on flat-panel TVs because this is a very competitive market.”
Yuuki Sakurai
“It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.”
Craig Bruce
“Small businesses are moving onto the Internet at a phenomenal rate, ... A number of hardware and software companies are offering turnkey packages for catalog-building and e-commerce that will allow just about anybody to get on the Net.”
Chris Shipley
“Supporting the projects and institutions advancing open source software and hardware helps ensure the continued success and advancement of open source technologies. The teams at Oregon State and Portland State have done great open source work in the past, and we're excited to back their joint efforts.”
Chris DiBona
“Because of the hardware/software combination that Forum provides to us [the products] can be easily integrated into what was an evolving network architecture.”
David Harrington
