Jim Burns Quotations

Because the Web is a critical business backbone for the state, we determined that we needed to apply a proxy infrastructure to ensure critical control, protection and performance. We selected Blue Coat due to the comprehensive capabilities, ease of deployment, management, and overall flexibility and power of its proxy appliances. We are also pleased with our network performance, already seeing a significant WAN bandwidth savings with the Blue Coat proxy appliances.

The rest of this week, for this part of Massachusetts and central Massachusetts is going to get really busy, sugaring-wise.

Nobody in the channel likes to have a lot of inventory risk.

People have found nuggets here. I'm finding some fine gold. But I sure won't get rich.

Some of the numbers being discussed don?t sound sufficient. The Senate is talking in the neighborhood of $100 million for all of the states. That gets divided up really fast.

The council's main objective is to have someone in place to take care of the routine projects and free them up from the day-to-day activities (to focus on more long-range planning).

The old farmer's rule is the sap you collected, you boil it that day.

I really love the mechanics of it -- the tubing, the modifying the system to work more efficiently or faster. I also enjoy being out in the woods. I enjoy the nature part of it, too.

The card itself will have to be as counterfeit-proof as possible. We?re capable of doing that now.

It would be physically impossible if we had to do this by the trigger date of May 2008. It would be impossible to do it all in one year, so we?re staggering it.