Doug Michaels Quotations

We're in a period with some of the most disruptive technologies I've ever seen, and the Internet is the most disruptive. The beginning of the new millennium is not the end of this period of change, it could even be the beginning of change going into hyper-drive.

There is a huge opportunity with Monterey and Merced. The Intel architecture has the potential to displace the proprietary, RISC, and mainframe architectures that have been kings for so long.

The open-source model is very important to us, but it's not a panacea. It's much more of a wild west kind of world, with huge opportunities and huge risks.

The whole idea of shared development has been ubiquitous in Unix for years. The Internet has magnified that and open source is bringing collaborative development to a new level.