“My feeling is we are doing something new here. We are building a collaborative effort that will make a great deal of copyrighted material available in a way that's acceptable to the creators. That is novel.”
David Mandelbrot
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed”
Charles Darwin
“The strides taking place in desktop Linux are a direct result of community and vendor collaboration. This effort combined with delays in Microsoft?s Windows and Office packages, makes this week?s Linux desktop discussion very timely and relevant.”
John Cherry
“It's not often that the president of a European nation announces a collaborative effort with a Michigan company. It is great to see DNP prosper here in Michigan as it gains international attention.”
David Hollister
“Instead of building and maintaining collaborative supplier strategies, Toyota's U.S. competitors seem to be on a different, riskier path. The danger is that innovation suffers when supplier relationships hinge only on cost-cutting demand. Toyota recognizes that fulfilling the enterprise potential of TPS requires a substantial cultural shift toward collaboration and continuous improvement, both internally and externally. The changes have to permeate senior management thinking.”
Jim Matheson
“I hope that this open conversation will help to build a much more collaborative partnership for the future. Rather than two entities coming together once in a while, I hope the meeting will mark the beginning of an ongoing, perpetual relationship.”
Wayne Fairchild
“This collaboration and evaluation effort will make Red Hat Enterprise Linux the most secure open-source operating system platform available.”
Brian Stevens
