Unix Quotes
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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. (Quote by - Jamie Zawinski)
We welcome people considering Unix as an alternative for NT. We would like them to be sure to be running on the SPARC platform. (Quote by - Barbara Kay)
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. (Quote by - Ken Thompson)
There is tremendous market opportunity in the Linux server industry for startups who can fill a niche. The key will be for these startups to show that there is a real cost benefit to Linux over Windows and Unix. (Quote by - George Weiss)
The Unix server business is more of a wild card. They're either going to have to gain some market share or accelerate their efforts on the services and software side. But the markets they're going after certainly support that kind of growth. (Quote by - Kurt King)
Unix servers continue to support mission-critical workloads. (Quote by - Jean Bozman)
Despite our decrease in revenue and our increase in net loss incurred during the first quarter, the Unix business continued to generate positive cash flow. (Quote by - Darl McBride)
Although King is reducing fourth-quarter 1999 and in some cases first-quarter 2000 estimates across most of the sector, ... exposure to (computer-spending)
lockdowns under which Unix servers will be hardest hit. (Quote by - Sun Microsystems)
Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. (Quote by - Henry Spencer)
It's not as bad as when there were a hundred different companies selling Unix. There are maybe six or eight Linux distributors we all know about. But given the size of the market, even though it's growing quickly, it's not clear that they will all exist three or four years from now. (Quote by - Bill Claybrook)
NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much better, and operators often prefer them because they are not knowledgeable about NonStop. (Quote by - Tom Massey)
The thing we learned with large customers is one size does not fit all. Some want to run on mainframe, Unix, Linux, or Windows. It's hard to get a census of exactly what they want to run on. (Quote by - Tim Kennedy)
I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java. (Quote by - Bill Joy)
VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix. (Quote by - W. Davidson)
People aren't anxious to see a repeat of the 'Unix wars' of a few years ago. (Quote by - Bruce Lowry)
People who have tried to use NT outside of a workgroup environment and seen it fail, have retrenched with Unix, ... [Microsoft's] reality distortion is wearing off, and people are making more informed decisions. (Quote by - Brian Croll)
Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science. (Quote by - Dave Mankins)
People are exploiting the situation right now. I've seen junior-type Unix administrators asking for $80,000 to $90,000 who we'd offer $65,000 to $70,000 at the most if they were pretty good. (Quote by - Eric Nelson)
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. (Quote by - Eric Allman)
We know Linux is the best, it can do infinite loops in five seconds. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)
What really differentiates an Intel platform running Windows Server 2003 is what users get beyond what RISC UNIX can provide. Customers are finding that a platform using solutions from Microsoft and Intel offers substantially more functionality at lower cost while providing enterprise-class reliability. (Quote by - Boyd Davis)
Solaris has done very well as far as it being a leading Unix operating system for Sun, but how much attention has Solaris attracted outside of Sun? ... You could go through the other key software products and say the same thing. (Quote by - Laura Conigliaro)
Over the weekend I exchanged email with a Unix guy who chastised me for being insular and proposed to tell me how to speak to Unix people with proper humility. Well, I only pray to one God in relation to computers, and His name is Murphy. (Quote by - Dave Winer)
Unix is back in vogue. (Quote by - Mike Foster)
TCT is a standard tool, or rather a collection of tools that are designed to assist in a forensic examination of a computer. It's designed for Unix systems, but it can also get some data collection and analysis from non-Unix disks and media. (Quote by - Phil Huggins)
Unix has its weak points but its file system is not one of them. (Quote by - Chris Torek)
Unix systems in the past have been managed on a one-off basis. Each system had an administrator and the administrator was responsible to manage the accounts, passwords and identities of the users on each system. (Quote by - Phil Schacter)
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. (Quote by - Eric S. Raymond)
If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. (Quote by - Craig E. Groeschel)
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. (Quote by - Jeremy S. Anderson)
The good days of Unix are back. Growth is back, and we're leading that growth. And it's all about the amount of investment we're making and innovating in areas that matter to our clients. (Quote by - Adalio Sanchez)
Ten years ago when Microsoft came out with NT the worry was that there would be little choice at this point in time. But technology buyers have a great deal of choice. We still have multiple flavors of Unix. We have Sun with a mixture of open and commercial Unix, and we've got Linux. (Quote by - Dana Gardner)
This gives users the ability to pool those resources as needed. They can provision servers, networks, and storage automatically without having to touch them. In the past, whether in the mainframe or Unix space, there have been substantial capabilities to manage those resources. We are aimed at the Windows space. (Quote by - Mike Grandinetti)
Historically, risk is much higher with Windows operating systems than Unix/Linux. How can I say that, look at all the major attacks. Which ones had the greatest likelihood and impact for 2005? Windows hands down. (Quote by - Ken Dunham)
There's a lot of folks out there who can now look at OS X and start to think about building their UNIX applications for the operating system. (Quote by - Ron Okamoto)
A very large percentage of the servers we sell are traditional Unix systems. (Quote by - Richard McCormack)
It is Microsoft's first attempt at the high-end UNIX server market with an NT product. (Quote by - Richard Scocozza)
This is not at all surprising as Linux is the most popular Unix-type system. (Quote by - Konstantin Sapronov)
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. (Quote by - Dennis Ritchie)
Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. (Quote by - Jonathan Gilpin)
Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things. (Quote by - Doug Gwyn)
UNIX gives you just enough rope to hang yourself and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. (Quote by - Eric Allman)
The work that Microsoft has done to enhance scalability and reliability with the Datacenter edition of Windows 2000 will place the company in more direct competition with Sun and other UNIX players. We are cautiously optimistic that it will provide better scalability and stability than earlier versions of Windows, but the jury is still out on whether it can beat UNIX environments. (Quote by - David Cearley)
If you had talked to me this morning, I would have said I was pretty comfortable that UNIX servers would improve. But I think they improved a lot more than most of us would have expected. (Quote by - Phil Rueppel)
A lot of people thought Unix servers were going away, but not only are they not going away, they're playing an incredibly important role in the data center to handle mission-critical applications (Quote by - Jean Bozman)
An interesting finding about Oracle's results is that not only did it have a strong presence in our survey, but it had a strong presence across platforms, including at least one No. 1 position in a top ten list on each of the UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms. It's also important to mention Oracle's strong showing in both OLTP and data warehousing applications. (Quote by - Robert Dorin)
NDS allows you to get away from the NT vs. NetWare vs. Unix argument and select the operating system that is best suited to each need, (Quote by - Chris Miller)
We are preparing to think about contemplating preliminary work on plans to develop a schedule for producing the 10th Edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual. (Quote by - Andrew Hume)
ASAP has helped IBM take more than $150 million worth of Unix business from Sun since its inception. (Quote by - Jim Larkin)
The Unix market is still alive, (Quote by - Jean Bozman)
HP is the Unix vendor that drove this trend toward virtualization in the mid-90s, so they've been working on it for some years but haven't always marketed it effectively, (Quote by - Jonathan Eunice)
Unix in particular is very poor at network printing. (Quote by - Michael Sweet)
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. (Quote by - Eric S. Raymond)
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it. (Quote by - Bill Joy)
If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't?
IBM's integrated Unix/Linux strategy, which can support both simple and complex workloads, is designed to help customers make customer's choices the right one. (Quote by - Bill Claybrook)
Eighteen months ago, seven times out of 10, the short list for these large Unix environments was typically between HP and Sun. In the last six months, that has dramatically shifted to putting IBM much more frequently on that short list. (Quote by - Brad Day)
UNIX is like sex: If you don't know it, you don't miss it. But if you know it, you'll need it. (Quote by - Lars Eilebrecht)
Roughly stated, painting with some broad strokes, the Linux vendors flat out refused to help. They have not even really replied to requests. The commercial Unix vendors have tried to stay away from funding us as well, hiding in their castles, especially when users of our software sent them requests for action. (Quote by - Theo de Raadt)
Development in our organization is done on different platforms, so it's hard to tell a Unix guy to use this Microsoft source control system. (Quote by - Steve Grubbs)
The irony is that Perl itself is a subset of UNIX features condensed into a quick-and-dirty scripting language. In a literary light, if UNIX is the Great Novel, Perl is the Cliffs Notes. (Quote by - Thomas Scoville)
They remove one of the last remaining barriers to adoption by traditionally conservative IT managers. The prospect of Unix-based Mac OS X on standardized Intel hardware can offer multi-platform advantages for administrators and developers alike. The shift toward slow growth in business-focused Mac adoption has begun. (Quote by - Carmi Levy)
Most organizations have Unix servers installed, and they're prepared to manage Unix systems. The question is whether they're prepared to manage large blocks of Unix clients. (Quote by - Al Gillen)
We see our product running in conjunction with two flavors of Unix within the next twelve months. (Quote by - Len Rosenthal)
Our goal is to be the industry leader in UNIX systems and solutions and in the process better serve customers and offer them choices in the market. (Quote by - John Patrick)
UNIX is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. (Quote by - Larry Wall)
Linux promises to fulfill the promise made by Unix a decade ago -- a truly cheap, powerful and entirely open computing architecture, ... Sun is digging in its heels fighting the trend. As a result, no self-respecting CIO will say she or he wants to do more business with Sun. (Quote by - Arnie Berman)
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. (Quote by - Bill Joy)
Suggest that UNIX server growth across the industry is accelerating due to a solid Internet build-out. Sun is becoming the new IBM. (Quote by - Steven Milunovich)
They have user IDs in Active Directory now, so they have simplified things somewhat. Now they want a full Kerberos infrastructure with smartcards for their Unix systems. With VAS version 3.0, we are now providing a complete NIS replacement including migration with a full set of tools. (Quote by - Dave Wilson)
Windows get more viruses than Macs and UNIX systems, yes, but Macs are not immune. That's just a fundamental design issue in the operating systems. (Quote by - Robin Anderson)
Not only are databases getting larger on traditional platforms such as mainframes and UNIX platforms, but in this survey we really saw them getting larger on Windows and Linux as well. (Quote by - Robert Dorin)
If you took us out of the Unix market you'd actually see a shrinking Unix market, or flat, as Gartner calls it. (Quote by - Karl Freund)
The Unix world has had a problem with Sarbanes-Oxley because of the fragmented authentication [of NIS and NIS+]. Firms don't want multiple identity stores spread on multiple Unix systems throughout the organization. (Quote by - Dave Wilson)
We are following in the grand tradition of Berkeley engineering, as with Berkeley 's BSD UNIX operating system, in making our innovations freely available and unencumbered for research and possible commercialization in source code form. (Quote by - Randy Katz)
Cisco's and Nortel's systems use Windows, which has so many umbrellas on top to make it look simple. But it's complicated underneath, and it's vulnerable to viruses. Unix is a more perfected and hardened OS than Windows. (Quote by - Bob Inpyn)
The whole idea of shared development has been ubiquitous in Unix for years. The Internet has magnified that and open source is bringing collaborative development to a new level. (Quote by - Doug Michaels)
If you are running Linux as the primary OS and are using the Internet, you are still open to security-based holes that Unix systems have. (Quote by - Mike Romo)
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a UNIX user to show you how it's done. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
Our technology, at this point, is way better in terms of how few defects we have. Compare, say, with Linux how many defects we have, how quickly we fix those defects, how our system is for getting the updates out for those defects. Take those objective criteria and we are better. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
The fact that the UNIX business is showing a little bit of life here is encouraging. They've still got a little ways to go, but they actually did a little better than I would have thought. (Quote by - Steve Milunovich)
It was this version of Unix that Ritchie and Thompson presented to about 200 people at the Symposium on Operating System Principles in 1973. This was one of the first 'wow' papers, ... Almost immediately, people started calling up asking if they could get copies of this new operating system. (Quote by - Peter Salus)
I'm an old Unix guy; I had enough trouble putting my data on a SAN , but then you ask me to put a Windows box in the middle ... It was a horse pill to swallow. If it went down, I'd be looking for another job. (Quote by - John Parrish)
With more branded NT workstations shipping than Unix workstations in 1998, NT is driving the growth in the workstation market. NT workstations have surpassed the start-up phase and have become mainstream in the workstation market, (Quote by - Tom Copeland)
An agent has to combine investigative skills and technical skills. It's hard to find people in society who can administer UNIX and professionally carry a weapon. And they pay way below market value. (Quote by - Jim Williams)
Providing a Windows solution, especially to a developer audience, is a must-have. There are more and more applications that are specifically written to the Windows platform and I think we are seeing an increasing trend where developers will actually have environments that run on both Windows and Unix. (Quote by - John Enright)
A big reason that UNIX administration is challenging is that every UNIX vendor believes standards are for weak-minded fools. (Quote by - Ray)
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them, (Quote by - Dean Stockwell)
I believe we will see at least one speed bump for POWER chips and probably a bump for SPARC during the course of 2006. In many ways, these chips are harnessed in the Unix systems that are the workhorses of the enterprise infrastructure, where they are running massively large workloads with exacting availability requirements. (Quote by - Dan Olds)
