Ed Zander
Ed Zander
Edward J. Zanderis an American business executive. He was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Motorola from January 2004 until January 2008, remaining as chairman until May 2008. His work in the technology sector included management positions at Data General and Apollo Computer before joining Sun Microsystems in 1987, where he was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer and President...
aligned best quarters stars
The moons were aligned and the stars were aligned, ... It was probably one of our best quarters in many, many years.
customers products win
I think we have better products. We have to get them out there to our customers when we say we will and our products will win on the shelves.
next numbers quarter work
I think, actually, we are going to work our backlog down in this quarter and next quarter and the analysts are working through their numbers right now.
advantage company continue demand healthy number numbers percent showing speak upped yesterday
I think it was significant yesterday that we upped it from the 20 percent number to the 25 percent number, showing the demand in the marketplace for our products. We continue to see healthy demand, and we think we're the best, well-positioned company to take advantage of this growth. We'll let the numbers speak for themselves.
growth industry low percent talked teens
Going into this year, we talked about 20 percent growth rate, and I think our industry really was in the teens for a long time, and low single-digit numbers.
companies consumer figure nervous saw trying
What I saw in some of consumer companies was not good, ... All were nervous about business, trying to figure out what would happen.
advantage apart enterprise huge market opportunity particular present revenue storage
Apart from the significant competitive advantage this particular market brings, enterprise servers and networked storage also present a huge revenue opportunity for Sun,
applying good longer operating systems testing
Good operating systems are a lot like good wine. New is not necessarily good. ... The longer you've been testing it, the longer you've been applying it in applications, the better it gets.
competitor meet sun threats value wake
I don't take any competitor lightly. This is what makes Sun really good, is that every day we wake up and we value the competitive threats and we go out and meet them in the marketplace,
asked numbers sets
I asked for the numbers and got 17 different sets of numbers,
ability based compete data eu file gave open operate operating position sun systems
The EU investigation is not just Sun, they've been investigating for a long time. There is a Sun position that we gave them based on open interfaces and the ability to inter operate with some of (Microsoft's) operating systems and to compete effectively. They used some of our data to file their complaint.