Solar Quotes

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. - Ethel Wilson

[The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is close to that -- its entire mission-critical trading system is based on either Sparc or x86-based Sun servers, all of which run Solaris. The exchange in July went live with a new options-trading platform running on x86-based Sun servers, and CIO Bill Morgan plans to evaluate the Galaxy systems as well as new Sparc systems next year.] I'm in a business where we handle 120,000 messages a second now, and it's going to be over 200,000 next year, ... Whenever I hear a vendor is striving to upgrade capacity, that's music to my ears. - Bill Morgan

[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

(Utilities) are negligent to their ratepayers if they are not considering building a concentrating solar plant in the next five years. - Rhone Resch

(The research) will involve looking at particles that were kept in the far reaches of our universe in a deep freeze since the beginning of our solar system. - Tom Duxbury

(However) all plans for exploring the outer solar system, more or less, are in complete ruins at the moment. - Jonathan Lunine