Downtime Quotes

When you lose as many key players and leaders as England did after 2003, there's going to be a bit of downtime. - Alex King

When you introduce something new, it disrupts, and this increases things like help desk costs and employee downtime. So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface and any hardships around the new file format, which are always disruptive. These are two big hurdles Microsoft has to get around. - Joe Wilcox

When people have downtime they love playing with their mobile phones. So instead of playing a game of Tetris or buying their next ring tone, browsing for music and downloading a full track -- it's a natural and good thing. - Thomas Hesse

We've got some people that need to do some soul searching, and some people that need to step up. They have to figure out a way to get through this downtime. - Gary Carr

We've already developed the upgrade architecture and will begin working with a customer advisory board later this year to help us determine the best ways to automate and ease the upgrade process. A key priority is for us to make the upgrade as automated as possible, and to reduce cost and downtime. - John Wookey

We were able to make this transition with virtually zero downtime. No one at Kindred would have been aware of the change if they hadn't been told. We designed our new SANs to be extremely stable and reliable. - Tim Hesson

We spent a lot of time with customers mining their maintenance records and discussing the top causes of downtime. Every targeted system improvement has been tracked ongoing from component testing through to vehicle testing to be sure we provide customers a product that stands up to the grueling and time sensitive demands synonymous with line haul applications. - Tom Baughman

We need to win a series. It's a big series for us to get back and win a series. We're still in the thick of things. I feel like we've survived our downtime and now it's time for us to get going again. - Greg Beals

We faced one of the most difficult challenges in bargaining that we have in a good many years, ... the Ford workers probably knew that more than anyone, given the amount of downtime they've had, given the uncertainty, the media speculation of workplace closures and layoffs. - Buzz Hargrove

Vodafone helps us extend the mobile computing environment for ThinkPad customers, giving users access to a high-speed wireless network when and where they need to do business. In addition, our new Access Connections 4.1 software works with Vodafone's 3G network, enabling users to move seamlessly from one available network connection to the next without downtime or costly help desk calls. - Marc Godin