Having used all distributions but mostly Redhat, when someone tells me that any Linux is always crashing, I assume that he(oh yeah, he/she, must be politically correct) first most likely has a video card/Xfree86 problem first. Then what other hardware problem next. Cpu cooling or hard disk next.
OK so who am I.
watman.com (The first thing I would do to prevent system crashes is get AccelerateX)
As to the change in Redhat as the reseller of Applix my guess is that at the time it occured it was about perception. If Redhat is already selling an office suite, think of the borg model, then other application vendors are going to look elsewhere. At the time Linux needed applications(well that was the illiterate public perception at the time). I believe that Redhat as their market grew decided to go to a neutral bias appearance.
Sun on the other hand is going in the opposite direction. WHY.. Well how many popular OSes are their that may compete for the desktop. Well borg of course, Sun workstations, Linux and then the other unixes, hp-ux most likely going to Linux and Sgi irix going to Linux and Sco going to LInux and and.... The three OSes.... borg Slowlaris and Linux. With all going the unix way, Is sun going to be left out in the cold in terms of companies putting efforts into maintaining applications. But as an investor and not a system's engineer applix is the Linux play because of 11 million shares. What percentage of the market is required to generate 10 dollars a share earnings for a 11 million shares. How many corl shares are their?? Applix also has some very interesting enterprise applications (crm tm1)but are competing in a space where they have no mindshare. The exposure of the company through Linux is important. Applix fell into hard times because the were fundamentally a unix company and came into a market when who was becoming the major supplier of y2k viruses. Lunux/unix is now reemerging.
But who has an office suite portal already up and running so that anywhere you can run applixware office applications in a browser over the internet. This is the ultimate enterprise.
Does applix offer shelf for free that allow users to customize their office applications?
Who has an office suite that runs not only on Linux but all other Unixes and on the borg viruses. Last quarter a 1/2 million sale of applix office for AIX becase company evaluated suite on Linux. What is Linux Office 99?? Will its sales hurt applix????
So if applix becomes 1/100 the size of the borg and currently their are only 11 million shares, what is a reasonable expectation of a share price.
Now I started buying applix over a year ago based upon the above reasoning. If you read my past post on this thread going way back... you will see I'm just repeating myself.
Now Don, It's you turn for some short comments. Don, I like seeing green.
Tom Watson tosiwmee |
