Dan Kusnetzky Quotations

What's new is that someone built a whole operating system, not tools or subsystems.

We're seeing a grand experiment under way now. Many open-source project teams are trying different approaches to monetizing their projects.

IBM is trying to ride this horse along with all the other horses it's riding and not fall off any of them. This is a great circus act.

If what Apple provides as a hardware platform is interesting to the open-source community, it would not surprise me very much that a group of people will find a way to port Linux to that hardware in short order.

It is clear that organizations are looking at ways to cut costs and make sure their investments offer immediate value. Virtualization helps them achieve those goals by aggregating the workloads handled by older machines on a bigger machine.

Open-source has established itself in organizations of all sizes.

Organizations are looking for ways to cut costs.

Linux is seen by many to have a strong opportunity in the embedded operating environments market.

Linux is at the starting gate. Shipment numbers look good, but on the revenue side you see a clearer picture of its enterprise value.

Just because an operating environment is available on a volume hardware platform does not necessarily mean that it will become a volume product itself. It all depends upon the portfolio of applications, development tools and services available.

The days of the killer application are long gone.

We are starting to see the growth of companion devices that sit side-by-side with the desktop systems. It is looking more likely that this is where Linux will find a place.

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

At this point, the perception is that Linux is viable (only) for servers.

Despite this lawsuit, they'll satisfy that niche again relatively soon.

Apple's shipment numbers do not represent a clear picture of the company's opportunity.

Apple knows that even with this Intel chip switch, it's not going to go around talking about chips and what's inside the box. The company builds on the differentiation it's already found from its software, which combines with the design of the machine.

Apple focuses pretty strongly on innovating by thinking about how people use their products, and also what consumers want from the products. There can sometimes be a gap between those two, and that's where they concentrate.

This could be just about Oracle buying an installed base they can sell more software and services to. But I don't know if the open-source community feels comfortable being purchased, or if they see Oracle as an acceptable custodian of the code base they have contributed to.

This approach to development is highly responsive to changes to the environment. Systems Solutions brings together the best of breed open-source operating systems and collaboration software so customers experience a straightforward solution that is flexible and cost effective.

This announcement addresses three major industry trends organizations' focus on cost reduction strategies, organizations' need to find measurable value for IT investments in a very short order, and organizations' need to allow their staff members to collaborate with one another from wherever they are, using whatever network enabled device they choose. Customers deploying open source software in a virtual machine can reduce their software and hardware costs, and simultaneously enhance their agility in addressing future computing needs.

There's certainly a play for style with Apple, and they're going to use widgets for that.

It might be possible to host a whole operating environment and a complete stack of software that performs some needed function in a virtual machine that runs on another operating environment. While this is workable, it may not perform well, be reliable, or be supportable for some other reason.

It's all just an indication of the old saying that nothing succeeds like success. If a market is booming, and people are looking for products, there will naturally be companies happy to provide them.

It looks like they are going to ask developers to have to rewrite applications to use some of the features of the new system. If I'm a developer with a limited budget and am told I'm going to have to make major changes, or even minor changes, to my applications to keep up with Apple's operating system, I'm probably going to write for Windows and not for Mac.