Rob Enderle Opposed Quotations

He's really getting the financials and operations in good order and making strong management and organizational decisions, as opposed to going after every opportunity on the planet. Those decisions are very hard to make, because a lot of folks only want to acquire companies, and the end result is a complex mess that can't be managed.

This is the emergence of the new Gateway. It's critical for them that the market see them as a new and vibrant company, as opposed to the perception that followed them at the beginning of the year, that this is a company that's going out of business.

This company has a lot of leading-edge chip designers behind them, as well as the inventor of Linux. So they've got the skills set to develop something that is based around the current paradigm that takes advantage of the technologies that exist today, as opposed to technologies that have either become obsolete -- or certainly old -- over the last five years.

I think something that's developed from scratch will have a much better shot at taking on the desktop, as opposed to something that's got the age behind it that Linux does.