“VMware, Oracle, Apple and Google are great competitors. We’ll respect them but we’re not going to fear them. This is our time to take back the dialog.”
– Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO
“Google has filed a $4m bill of costs for Oracle’s third damages expert report in the trial over alleged copyright and patent infringement in Android. … For Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, $4m is barely enough to maintain his Japanese garden but it should serve as a warning to other companies thinking of filing lawsuits that ask for fanciful damages amounts.”
– Lawrence Latif, The Inquirer
“[G]iven Apple’s continued lack of transparency and absence of a commitment to expand its cloud with renewable energy, including a siting policy that covers future data centre facilities, Apple still finds itself behind other companies such as Facebook and Google.”
– Greenpeace
“Make no mistake … it’s Perceptive Pixel’s potential in Surface-style hardware that could give Microsoft its tablet edge against the iPad. “
– Chris Davies, SlashGGear
“Business is not aiming for do-it-yourself (DIY) big data solutions. Firms don’t want to be pioneers with vendors either, a significant reason why hardware and storage technologies are not and will not be the driving force behind Big Data…. Firms are looking for vendors that can deliver solutions and a data platform that can meet their time-to-market requirements. There is a very high price tag associated with the army of programmers needed to develop and support Big Data solutions.”
– Louis Lovas, director of solutions, OneMarketData