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2006: Top 10 Memorable Quotes: Page 3 of 7

  • No. 7: "One of the reasons we haven't been making a big deal of this is we are not at the stage where we want to unveil specifics of CDP." -- Sean Macnew, director of Symantec's CDP and replication product group, on Symantec's purchase of Revivio in November.

    Another reason is that it wasn't a big deal: Symantec paid about $20 million for Revivio, which had $55 million in VC funding. Built into the fire sale cost to Symantec will be expenses related to supporting Revivio's customers. All 12 of them.

    See Symantec Swallows Revivio and 2006 Storage Winners & Losers .

  • No. 6: "I'd say Yahoo this quarter was slightly below the norm. Their big infrastructure update is not yet underway." -- Network Appliance CEO Dan Warmenhoven, when asked during last month's earnings report to characterize sales to NetApp's largest customer.

    That gorilla behind the curtain? He's just visitin.'