Philly Tech New Quotes & Tweets 7/6/2016





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"It took them [Oracle] eight to 10 years to write applications ... my guess is they wrote it before the iPhone and iPad were available. So it's pretty old technology and they might have to re-write it again."

SAP's president of global customer operations Rob Enslin, on Oracle and its co-CEO, Mark Hurd, in the Australian Financial Review.


“Workday is big in our customer base, and we will continue to support Workday integration. We are here to be an open cloud platform and to be able to integrate in any systems you require.”

SAP Fieldglass President Rob Brimm,
as quoted by ASUG News



“You don’t get fired for going with Amazon Web Services,” UBS analyst Steven Milunovich says that company CIOs have told him. “It’s
the new IBM.”

From Fortune Magazine article on IBM's outlook.

















“We’re focused heavily on the connected home security market and disrupting that market,”

Dan Herscovici, senior vice president and general manager of Xfinity Home, said soon after Comcast announced it was acquiring home automation specialist Icontrol.




"In 2012, Comcast recorded 1.2 million GB of data traffic. In 2013, it more than doubled to 6.9 million GB of data traffic. It skyrocketed in 2014 when the company recorded 74.8 million according to FierceWireless ."

From an article on use of Linux and Open Source within Comcast in Linux.com.





"We have great technologists, but you know we are running big platform, legacy systems, so how do you develop something for this in three months the way you would see out of the Valley? So we actually created some teams and development methodologies to get at that. So it more by looking, studying and actually trying to do it ourselves rather than going out and buying somebody.”

Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb, giving a side talk after speech at Morningstar conference in June.



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