Quotes by Jean Bozman

“Whats very important here is that they are the biggest partner for the channel, ... Still, they are not just going with the channel, or just going with the direct model.”

“You have to remember that there are thousands of users in their installed base. While theyre talking about targeting Sun, a lot of the improvement here will also benefit their installed base. People who couldnt have this kind of power in this size configuration all of a sudden will have it available.”

“A lot of people continue to use Sun on Wall Street. They have a lot of investment in Sun software. What you see in this announcement is they have to broaden their offerings to reach that broader audience.”

“The Unix market is still alive,”

“A lot of people thought Unix servers were going away, but not only are they not going away, theyre playing an incredibly important role in the data center to handle mission-critical applications”

“You can build an entire ecosystem out of Linux and open source,”

“IBM maintained the No. 1 spot in the server blade market, with 40.9 percent market share, while HP maintained the No. 2 position with 38.6 percent share, ... Dells share of the blade market decreased to 6.5 percent in 2Q05.”

“Suns vision of computing is a promising one because it will allow a great variety of clients to participate on networks without the prior installation of special protocol stacks and LAN-specific software drivers on each client machine, ... Instead, the software drivers can be delivered via Java technology, on a just-in-time basis, as needed. Interoperability will be enhanced, and that interoperability will be good for end users both in the office and at home.”

“The new server line gives Sun a broader approach to the x86 market,”

“This is their big splash going into the x86 space,”