Re: CNN / InfoWorld article on Linux vs. NT (with some AS/400 referen ces)

Hi, Pat:

The word "funny" can be taken a few ways.  You mean "odd," I'm sure, but I
find it amusing and not odd.  As far as Linux being dead (or even
renamed---news to me!), that's one of those rumors that is scattered about
by those who don't know, or those who hope that the rumor will cause
iitself to become true.

Linux is alive and well, and living in millions of desktops around the
world.  Unless I misremember, there are more Linux installations (mostly in
a support role in small departments of corporations - performing functions
like routing, firewalling, etc) than there are of Windows.  If not more,
then it's a close match, but I don't remember the numbers.   I've been
running it for about five years now, and I swear by it.  Sometimes I swear
*at* it, but then I find *MY* mistake, and swear *by* it again.  :^)

MS knows about the concept and power of anything offered free.  Look at
what happened with IE vs. Netscape, if you don't think so.  It's hard to
beat down free software; particularly when it's so much better than its
competition.

Just my $.025
Dennis
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Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
03/25/99 06:39 PM GMT
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Subject:  Re: CNN / InfoWorld article on Linux vs. NT (with some AS/400
      referen       ces)




David Gibbs wrote:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/24/mslinux.html/
> <http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/24/mslinux.html/>
>

Does anybody besides me find it funny that IBM is now looking
at Linux(Unix Lite) >>>>>>> I do not wish to participate in any
W/xx  finger pointing, I just find it odd that everybody is
raving about somthing that Windows was supposed to have killed
dead, but now reappears in a new name and everybody suddenly goes
oooooooooh.... "look at this new thing"....


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