“[IBM is] in the big leagues. IBM generated about $25 billion of software revenue last year. Oracle, meanwhile, known as a software company, generated only $26 billion–and the majority of that was for updated licenses and “support ….”
– Henry Blodget, co-founder, CEO and editor-In chief of Business Insider,
“Social enterprise is achieving so much but it is still in its relative infancy. We will not let it be destroyed by [Salesforce.com] people who want to appropriate our name for private profit.”
– Peter Holbrook, chief executive, Social Enterprise UK
“Apple will sell a lot of products, but I suspect that their reign … won’t last for more than another few years. These products can be imitated and they will be imitated.”
– Richard Sylla, professor of financial history at New York University’s Stern School of Business
“[G]reat developers and open-source software go together like peanut butter and jelly, and the more you can convince a great developer that your company believes in open-source, the more likely you are to recruit great developers in a highly competitive hiring environment.”
– Jolie O’Dell, VentureBeat reporter