Judith Hurwitz Quotations

IBM has been aggressive in terms of financial incentives for companies that are part of their overall ecosystem. They are making the effort to ensure this will be something that attracts partners so they won't go looking elsewhere.

I can tell you that every customer I have talked with in the market is implementing Linux as a key part of their strategy, ... People find that it is scalable, reliable, and the market is growing to support it.

Who controls the future of computing is really what this is all about. All these vendors understand that this is a transitional time for the industry where platforms are evolving, and everybody wants to be the market leader and control things.

Whereas IBM decided many years ago that they would not be in the application business, ... They're taking their middleware so that it evolves and becomes wrappers for packaged software that is becoming componentized. Then it almost doesn't matter who the primary packaged application is because if you put the enterprise wrapper around it, then you sort of control the game.

What it means is Eclipse now gets to expand its footprint beyond the traditional computing environment, and it gets to reach out to the mobile device.

Customers are very happy when the vendors they deal with adopt Eclipse because it reduces training costs.

Think of it like electricity. When you plug in a cord you are making an assumption about infrastructure.

It's not just about getting at everything, but also coordinating it.

He's really one of the smartest technologists I know, both in terms of the understanding of technology and where things are going to be moving. He's also a very charismatic leader, and he'll have the ability to bring in new energy and new outside involvement.