Al Gillen Quotations

Most organizations have Unix servers installed, and they're prepared to manage Unix systems. The question is whether they're prepared to manage large blocks of Unix clients.

Business users typically have concerns about a new Microsoft product, and that concern was proven to be fairly meaningful when that UPnP bug was revealed. They want to wait for those things to happen and get fixed.

For Microsoft to get customers to move onto the most current product, they have to make migration easier and have a lot less touch required on the part of IT managers.

There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.

Open is one of those convenient marketing terms. People bend it to meet their needs.

Plans to use Active Directory are extremely high. The problem is that actually doing that is still sometimes difficult and time consuming.

Microsoft is now taking a viable approach, ... It's a more practical way to go about it.

Windows Vista is going to be a significant release for all Windows customers, including enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses as well as consumers.

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.

Vista seemed to be on schedule, so this was a fairly significant surprise.

A lot of companies need a reason to stay with NetWare. For the NetWare installed base, NetWare 5.1 is going to be a very attractive product.

They do 150 million PCs per year it's like a rounding error.

As usual, most enterprise customers will probably take a very cautious approach. Most won't rush in unless they absolutely have to for performance and scalability reasons, especially if it's a deep software stack on top of the operating system. They'll be too concerned about software incompatibilities.

It's a small percentage but nevertheless, for 15 percent of its customers to be unhappy with a policy Microsoft is setting is not a good sign.

There's the potential for Microsoft to capture more revenue with software that should have a bigger price mark-up.

How that actually transpires to units sold to consumers we don't have any visibility into,