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On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 16:04, Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) wrote: > Martin, > > I agree a Linux editor would actually cause me to install and use Linux, > rather than install it, play around, and then reload Windows 2000 on > that machine. > Application support is going to be a chicken and egg situation for a > long time. But I will go out on a limb here and state that I doubt that > more than 1 percent of the AS/400 programmer population is using Linux > as their workstation "OS". > > Bob Cozzi Hi Bob I think even 1% would be an overestimate ;-) Figures I've seen only give Linux around 1% of the desktop market anyway and I reckon this will be lower in the business world. Mind you, now that even Sun has joined the Linux party (as much to keep up with IBM I suspect) I think Linux desktop usage figures may grow more quickly. Regards, Martin -- martin@dbg400.net jamaro@firstlinux.net http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open \ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
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