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  3. December 2001

Re: IBM beckons Linux fans to server line

Richard wrote:

> A line of hardware/os that's been around 15 odd
> years, sold multi-million units, has been a profit
> leader for the worlds largest and best known computer
> manufacturing company, and it's just a "relatively
> unknown, special-purpose server".

I got chatting to a UNIX/C++ programmer at a dinner party. I told him I was
a programmer too, mainly RPG on AS/400. His comment was that it must be
nice to be working "in a niche market like that". It was said with a
straight face too.

Dave...
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