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To: Prognosticator who wrote (21619)	10/22/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	of 64865

Prog, I just enjoy making a case (especially on this thread!) for x86 + NT/Linux as alternatives to proprietary iron since I see that as a natural path; mainly due to price/performance benefits that soon IT departments must look at. I believe we'll see Linux + n-way x86 iron (open iron) as the up-and-coming server alternative to traditional proprietary iron and even MSFT NT. It's FREE, does file serving, print serving, web serving and even database serving quite nicely. IT departments can chose very expensive proprietary iron (most expensive option), MSFT NT (license for large amounts of users is 5-20K U.S.), or finally Linux (most cost effective option). Linux is a threat to both MSFT and SUNW and friends in the mid server market. p.s. My NT server 4.0 is dual-boot Redhat 5.2 Cheers James

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