“I engaged [four people using high-end Android devices] in some innocent tech talk. It did not go well. I casually brought up how excited I was that my phone was updated, and asked each person what software they were running. I might as well have been speaking Klingon.”
– Matthew Timmons, commentator for The Verge, a tech-focused news publication
“Transparency is something that starts vanishing pretty quickly when you [pirate]. Not only do you hide from others, but you end up having things in your own company that are hidden from you — there is no accountability when you go in for pirated software.”
– Bharat Somany, director at Hindusthan National Glass & Industries
“Most companies are, unfortunately, managed by HIPPOs — ‘highest paid person’s opinions.’ They need to be managed more by data, as in Moneyball! And this means a move away from reporting on what happened yesterday and more towards predictive analytics. It is crucial to roll [this capability] out to everyone who’s making operational decisions, not just the higher-ups.”
– Andrew de Rozairo, business development director, strategic partners EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at Sybase
“Technology is not just an enabler of business anymore. It often is the business.”
– Bill McDermott, SAP’s co-CEO
“Open source also implies a degree of sharing. It’s not absolute – open source companies have always been free to retain some “secret sauce” and sell their innovations. But, as I’ve written here many times, it’s shared infrastructure, a single structure used by many that puts all these competitors on a level playing field against proprietary competition. … You will still find companies with hole cards and companies trying to protect their own ‘secret source’ from prying eyes. But that will be just a small portion of the whole, the cherry on top of the whipped cream, not the ice cream in the sundae. Or should I say the [Android ice cream] sandwich?”
– Dana Blankenhorn, business journalist