Carmi Levy Quotations

IBM is positioning itself to be the vendor of choice when the open-standards strategy manifests itself and Massachusetts divests itself of closed-standard technologies, ... Microsoft now has viable competition on the end user's desktop, whatever that desktop looks like over the next few years. IBM has served notice that it won't go down without a fight.

I think it's very good for RIM and shows a real hesitance on the part of Judge Spencer to make a decision before the USPTO has reached a final decision on the remaining patents.

RIM will finally have the power to chew through very complex applications, and make them work. They won't slow down, and they won't crash.

It exists in utopia. In reality, there's no such things as the 'ultimate' anything. The only way to achieve it is in the lab, and even then, that's probably not even realistic.

Microsoft never walks away from money. It makes a significant amount of money year-over-year from its Mac products.

Twenty-five billion frankly doesn't surprise me. In the U.S. alone, right now there are about 3 million users who would potentially be affected. One million of those are government and law-enforcement workers who would presumably be exempt -- so, say, 2 million people who are essentially addicted to their Blackberries, and without them their business would basically evaporate.

Quite frankly, you look at the numbers, and you realize there has to be something more for eBay to buy into. There's significant risk because the cash is not there now.

Something tells me there are deeper pockets south of the border.

An injunction would give free reign to patent trolls-those companies that use the patent system as the exclusive basis for suing other firms over disputed technology.

It's a pretty big number and a pretty big gamble.

They wouldn't announce this unless it was ready for prime time.

If you're outsourcing part of your transaction work, you're responsible for making sure the provider adheres to the same security protocols you do. Consumers expect this security whether a bank employee does it or a third party does.

Intel-powered Macs present an interesting proposition to tomorrow's IT client-PC roadmap.

Instead of a hodge-podge of processes, things have to be there for a reason. If they aren't, then they have no business being connected to everything else. You don't build a building without blueprints, and you shouldn't build a network without a roadmap.

If every state follows a similar tack, maybe we're onto something and Microsoft's Open XML strategy may not be a great idea. But we're not seeing that. Microsoft has not backed down and is committed to using Open XML for its forthcoming Office versions.

the end of shrink-wrapped software in a box and the start of the Internet-based services era. It marks a turning point in the industry.