Scalability Quotes

As the first server-based, 'all-in-one' communications software application system, CIC brings with it a long-standing reputation for innovation. With the latest version offering dramatic increases in scalability, along with key performance optimization and enterprise messaging enhancements, CIC continues to lead the market. This innovation, backed by more than 10 years of development experience and over 2,000 global customers, makes CIC truly deserving of our Product of the Year Award. - Nadji Tehrani

As the e-commerce market matures, you're going to see more software package solutions. Even Oracle is getting into the applications business. There is much more packaging on the software side to facilitate seamless scalability. - Seamus McAteer

As scalability, performance, and advanced administration requirements are realized, you will need to look to a 'major database provider' to satisfy the business needs. - Les King

As innovative providers such as Shanghai Telecom stay ahead of the market opportunities by introducing new services, the core is an important part of their network upgrades. The T-series and the TX Matrix deliver capacity and non-disruptive scalability, powering Shanghai's growth momentum with high-performance, advanced IP services. - Eric Yu

[While Microsoft has gobbled up tons of market share in the volume-server market over the past few years, it has been dogged by the widely held notion that Windows can't support very large, enterprise-level implementations.] The oldest issue we've dealt with is scalability... Today we should be able to completely convince you that there is no job that is too big to run completely on the Microsoft platform. - Steve Ballmer

[Even more critical to Oracle's future, however, was Phillips's announcement of Oracle Fusion Architecture (OFA), the company's massive SOA, combining the flexibility of model-driven process design and service- and event-enabled applications with ease of integration from its open, standards-based, hot-pluggable platform, and the scalability inherent in Oracle's grid computing architecture.] In 1925 business consultant Frederick Taylor said, 'Business processes are work processes tucked away in manuals.' The same thing is true today, but with applications instead of manuals... The Oracle Fusion Architecture is a unifying model of emerging trends in grid computing architecture, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise information architecture. It gives customers and partners a good view of the direction that Oracle is taking to make the most of our core strengths in database, middleware, and business applications. - Charles Phillips

[According to Robert LeBlanc, general manager for WebSphere for IBM Software Group, Staples became an early adopter of SOA two years ago, working closely with IBM to build a scalable, integrated, multichannel retailing solution.] They needed scalability, because the old system did not scale... and they started to grow and expand their business. And they really needed a new style of architecture. ... They wanted to go over the system once and reuse the pieces over and over again as they were bringing new services to their customer set. - Robert LeBlanc