Linux Quotes

[Linux] is brought in by corporations' Unix groups, so the first thing that's displaced is Unix. - Joe Wilcox

[Linux on SPARC architectures works in two ways in the educational market. The first case involves older SPARC machines, especially ones that are no longer well supported -- or not supported at all -- on Solaris. Putting Linux on them extends their working lives by giving them a modern, well-supported operating system.] The nice thing about Sun workstations is that the quality we build in extends the longevity of their purchase... We want people to get as much value out of our equipment as they can. - Barbara Kay

[Linux is going to be an integral part of the expansion.] We wanted something that was going to be state of the industry over time... We believe open source is where the industry is headed. - Mark Ryan

[In advance of Sun's announcement on Monday, HP officials served noticed that they intend to hold on to their market share.] We're sitting in a very good position in the market... A lot of our growth is in Linux and in architectures like blades. They're [Sun] coming to the party late. We have deep generations of architectures that have enabled us to have full generations of Opteron-based servers that have leading performance. - Paul Miller

[CA] saw an opportunity and has brought out versions of its core product for Linux and melded them in as part of their overall architecture. - Michael Henderson