Quotations

«Actually, we'd have given anything to finish the game. Regardless, I could have lived with a loss better than not knowing the outcome.»

«We even offered to stay over in a hotel and finish the game on Saturday. They just said, 'See you next year.'»

«People were once afraid to go downtown, ... People are everywhere now with lights, music and art.»

«[The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is close to that -- its entire mission-critical trading system is based on either Sparc or x86-based Sun servers, all of which run Solaris. The exchange in July went live with a new options-trading platform running on x86-based Sun servers, and CIO Bill Morgan plans to evaluate the Galaxy systems as well as new Sparc systems next year.] I'm in a business where we handle 120,000 messages a second now, and it's going to be over 200,000 next year, ... Whenever I hear a vendor is striving to upgrade capacity, that's music to my ears.»

«When we played at Blue Ridge last week, we brought up three freshmen so we could have 25 kids suited up. I'd prefer not to have to play anyone both ways, but we're just not in the position to do that. Some of our kids never ever leave the field.»

«Sun delivers enterprise-class reliability and performance on an industry-standard x64 platform by offering greater choice and flexibility, especially in the areas of capacity and scalability, which are so vital for our business. Sun continues to provide innovative products and solutions for competitive, mission-critical environments by providing reliable technology for high-volume transaction processing. In an electronic trading environment where every second counts, leveraging technology for competitive advantage is a necessity - not a luxury - for our customers. From our first SPARC-based systems to our recent migration toward Sun Fire x64 servers powered with the AMD Opteron(TM) processor running the Solaris 10 OS, we depend on the reliability and scalability of Sun's systems to meet our requirements for growth and rapid application development.»

«She used to get a huge, huge smile on her face and would start waving her arms around. I can see her doing it now. She was so happy.»

«There will be a lot of emotions, but the biggest thing I'll be thinking about is, 'Did we do all that we could to get the kids ready for this game?' ... There will probably be a few stones left unturned, but those will be things we can build on.»

«Capacity in the securities industry right now is certainly a challenge for everybody, especially with regard to market data, ... To the extent that these new machines do what they say and you can implement them easily without a lot of application adjustments is a win for Sun. It's certainly something I'm interested in.»

«Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I'd see them again, ... What's weird is Moro's son-in-law is a teacher at Valley Christian. I met him a few months ago after I was hired and I thought, 'This is crazy. I can't get away from those guys. I'm almost 200 miles away from (Blue Ridge) and I'm still seeing them.'»