Larry Jones People Quotations

A lot of stuff has been accomplished in a short period of time. We did six months' worth of work in one month from Feb. 10 to March 10. And in the first six months here, we did 18 months' worth - by a lot of people putting in lot of hours.

That keeps people from gathering together. When you have people who live in a facility like this, they normally do their meals in the dining hall.

In traditional voice systems, you can fix 40% to 50% of the problems remotely. On the data side, you can do 80%. Voice is still very people intensive, and people are the most expensive element of the network environment.

Nortel and its channel make more money on the upkeep of existing PBX customers than they do on selling new switches, so they hardly want to walk away from the old infrastructure ... That's why most of the people who are pushing convergence are on the IP side.