Desktops Quotes

With this move, we'll be able to get more aggressive with desktops. Notebooks have been much more favorable to us. - William Amelio

With Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell delivered an outstanding solution for transactional and fixed-function desktops. With its successor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, we are now positioned to serve the sweet spot of the market, the general office worker. This desktop is already generating great interest in businesses of all sizes, and it represents a tremendous new opportunity for Novell. - Jeff Jaffe

While we are seeing some softness in many categories, comparable sales performance in our North America retail stores continues to be impacted by weakness in desktops, laptops, monitors and printers and the related 'market basket' of higher margin goods historically linked to purchases of these items. - Bruce Nelson

When you are in a larger company, and you're dealing with 2,000 or more desktops, you need to have an integrated way to deal with that information. - Steven Thompson

What's new here is that we now have one tool and one set of interfaces that manages Windows servers and desktops and Linux servers and desktops, and which can be configured to run in a Linux environment. That one toolset provides the customer with complete freedom of choice. - Ross Chevalier

What we are encountering is the anxiety of breaking a trusted habit -- populating desktops with as many applications as possible. People need to start thinking instead in terms of populating networks and having robust, controllable, reliable connections to applications that exist out in a heterogeneous network. That's the dominant market for the next 30 years, and we can lead in that market. - John Slitz

We expect that developers from a variety of projects will come to Better Desktop.org and review these results to see firsthand how they can improve the design of different applications, desktops and distributions. Ultimately, improved usability will help Linux succeed on the desktop. - Nat Friedman

We continue to believe that Dell does not have adequate earnings power in notebooks, server and non-system revenue to offset the secular weakness in consumer and commercial desktops. - Ashok Kumar

We believe Vista will spur a positive mix-shift across the PC industry, reversing the recent shift towards low-end desktops and notebooks. - Chris Whitmore

We believe there will be an AMD/Dell deal announced very soon; more specifically, we believe it will come as early as March and involve Dell notebooks. The deal will likely mature from there to include servers and desktops, in that order, in subsequent months. - Doug Freedman