“I asked the panel to list the companies that would certainly be around in the future — and those that wouldn't be. … There was some disagreement about Oracle. Microsoft and Oracle said that Oracle would survive; Apache said it wouldn't. I also asked which companies would be dead. The panel agreed that it would be Apple, Sun and Novell.”

— Rob Enderle

The Future of Transparent Computing: A Comdex Wrap-Up http://technewsworld.com/story/32239.html in Tech News World (24 November 2003)

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