Michael Goulde Quotations

We're back in business today. The snow was a little bump in the road. We have a long year ahead of us. Obviously it affected business. We had some good traffic in the 59th Street store.

My take is the Mozilla Foundation took a look at this and its reliance on the community and saw a willingness to create a commercial model, and they saw it as the most sustainable way to move forward. It's a way to kick-start adoption of their technologies.

I would have expected a much more inclusive process. If they are relying on inviting companies to participate in the process, how much diversity of opinion are they likely to achieve?

Buffer overflow is one of the most common flaws that produce security vulnerabilities in software. It's not a good thing, but it isn't unique either to closed- or open-source software.

He couldn't tell one good risotto from another good risotto. It was the scene. It was the newness of the restaurant.

Open source today is expected to be 'good enough,' and, most of the time, open-source products meet that expectation or exceed it. When you're paying as much as you pay for Microsoft, by comparison, you expect a lot more than good enough.

Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot. This gives David the slingshot.

Picture David and Goliath, but David doesn't have a slingshot, ... This gives David the slingshot.

I think this is a problem for Microsoft only if the company wants it to be a problem.

We have a great deal of spring merchandise. You see color. I think that is very good for us, not just in Florida and California, but in the whole country. Our customers want to see newness.

The question is whether Sun can train its sales force to sell these things. Sun periodically wants to get into and not get into software.

We've converted a lot more than we did last year.

With document applications, there are few choices, which could be a problem in the long term because there are no guarantees with proprietary software that older formats will be compatible with those developed in the future.

Cost savings continue to be the driver behind adoption.

These companies feel that others are not putting enough effort into research and innovation, and they are doing something about it.

As more open-source companies emerge, ... I think we'll see this strategy more and more. It makes me wonder how serious some of the companies are about open source.

If I'm a company that is primarily using Windows servers and I haven't been a big user of Unix, for me to bring Linux into my environment would be a significant expense. I'd have to get people trained, develop policies and procedures and processes. It's building a whole new infrastructure, and if I can avoid doing that why wouldn't I? If I can make use of open source applications and get all the advantages of open source and still run on Windows, why not? Then I can still take advantage of all the expertise I have.

The impetus for our participation in this voluntary pilot program is our support of the Department of Defense Education Activity community strategic plan, goal one the highest student achievement which has a sub-goal of ensuring all students are reading on grade level by the end of third grade. It is our intent to meet that goal as early in a child's life as possible. DIBELS may be an effective tool to assist us in that endeavor.