Platforms Quotes

You've got a lot of new platforms that are clamoring for high-end sports content. - Brian France

You have to look at a product from every angle. What is the product's genre? What are the platforms? How much money are you going to spend? Who are the people that are building it? Is it a licensed product? Is it an original product? You then present the idea to the green lighting committee, which is, like the senior management in sales, senior management in marketing, and product development. And then, basically, you run the numbers. And it's a numbers game after that. If the unit volume comes back and it supports the development [costs] and what you'll need to spend at marketing, then the product is given the green light. - Michael Pole

You gear yourself up to produce great content for the medium you're serving. We've been serving the primary medium of television for many years, and so our systems and creative people are very focused on that notion. The way we got our digital media businesses off the ground was extending our TV shows and franchises, but now we're starting to see that each medium has its own dynamic and its own rhythms. What works on MTV may not work on Overdrive, and vice versa. So we wanted to creative groups of people who are obsessed about serving new platforms as we have been in the traditional TV area. - Brian Graden

Without the trial, you would not have had the OEMs so openly embrace other platforms. - Ransom Love

With these results we've proved that the Fabric 7 architecture enables a level of scalability and performance on x86 platforms that easily competes with more expensive, proprietary systems that have traditionally dominated the midrange and high-end of the server market. - Sharad Mehrotra

With the largest newsgathering operation in the world and forward- looking innovation a key component of our mission, CNN is in a unique position to meet the video news needs of consumers across multiple platforms, including television, radio, computers and, now, wireless phones. - Susan Grant

With software as a service and entertainment software delivered via the Internet, we're seeing interesting new Internet technologies and delivery platforms that enable these types of applications. - Bob Williams

With Rita, everyone is going to have to come off the platforms again. Obviously from a safety standpoint and security standpoint, it's the right thing to do. But with energy prices so high, it's hard to turn off the tap. - Kenneth Beer

Wireless Infrastructure is experiencing a flat market in the second half of the financial year with operating margins for the core transmit/receive filters at over 10 percent. Revenue growth awaits some delayed contracts and new OEM platforms moving into production. - David Rhodes

Wilma has very quickly strengthened to a storm with winds of 175 miles per hour -- that's stronger than Katrina and Rita. Although it's not on course to hit oil platforms, it's still a few days away and if there's a slight change in course to the west, markets will jump aggressively higher. - Tim Noest