“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
“Every product we've used on that ball field is something a local homeowner could go down to the local hardware store and purchase over the counter.”
Mike Jackson
“It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.”
Craig Bruce
“We are migrating optical data networking deeper and deeper into the hardware itself. Optical components inside systems provide higher data speeds and no cross talk. ... The box gets faster and smaller.”
David Honey
“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
“If what Apple provides as a hardware platform is interesting to the open-source community, it would not surprise me very much that a group of people will find a way to port Linux to that hardware in short order.”
Dan Kusnetzky
“They have a great hardware product, but they've been shut off from businesses and consumers who want to run PC programs, and now they have the software that will allow that.”
Ted Schadler