Ok, some more news on Linux and Comdex.. bla bla bla..
zdnet.com
Side By side Linux at Comdex by ...
Well of course I had to send Peter an email...
Enjoy.....
Subject:
Side by Side Linux at Comdex.
Date:
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:50:31 +0000
From:
"Thomas A. Watson" <nostaw@earthlink.net>
Organization:
WatMan Associates
To:
peter_coffee@zd.com
Dear Peter, I enjoyed your article. I've used linux for over six years
and I'm amazed the the continuing positive acceleration of the Linux
phonomenom. Now I must say that your article today was somewhat more
useful..hmmmm...no fun, than this article just about a year ago.
I come not to praise linux by Mike Surkan.
zdnet.com
At the time I posted a reply. Alas all the talkback to this article
has been removed.
So here is some of my reply to that article. I'm including this as a
part of the answer to your question. Is Linux for the long haul??
Let's call it exponential mindshare. How do you measure it?
NOTE: Christopher Blizzard has worked for Redhat for just about a year
and no longer maintains his list.
Tom Watson's Linux BuZZ Index. This is the number of articles about
Linux found in main stream publications.
Note: this may note count all articles.
The numbers were found by counting articles by month at Christopher
Blizzards
Linux news articles.
odin.appliedtheory.com
559 Articles as of November 24
Prior to December 1997 there 37 articles
MONTH # of Articles.
dec_97.. 1 .
jan_98.. 8 ..
feb_98..12 ...
mar_98..14 ....
apr_98..19 .....
may_98..11 ...
jun_98..45 ...........
jul_98..56 ..............
aug_98..69 .................
sep_98..99 .........,.........,.....
oct_98..97 ...................,....
nov_98..91 ...................,.........,
as of November 24. Est. 120 by end of month.
Now Linux weekly news just posted several weeks ago the 10000 th article
on Linux.
Now to the realness of Linux by my measurement of users comments. This
is a result of talkback to Mike Surkan's article.
Everybody has an opinion. My opinion is based on my experience. I
constantly challenge my assumptions about why I have a particular
opinion. I like to measure how my opinion's compare with other
intelligent people. So all you have to do is count. I've found in the
past that individuals with hands on working technical experience have an
excellent grasp of reality as opposed to those who live by advertising
hype. But usually even amoung the seemingly technically literate their
are at least 10% who inspite of obvious truth's just don't get it.
Do the number's agree.
This is a statistical summary of the talkback to Miley's
"I come not to praise Linux ... "
My rating system.
-3 The Author, Mikey is intellectually Challenged.
(or Sold soul to Bill)
-2 Strongly Disagree
-1 Somewhat Disagree
0 No opinion
1 Somewhat agree
2 Strongly Agree
3 Anyone who uses Linux is brain dead.
Summary, -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
43 37 3 0 2 4 3
83 | 9
90.2% disagree with Mikey.
Get a CLUE, would ya? Compani... - Tom C -3
If it's so unimportant... then... - John Zakrzewski -2
Usefulness is the main reason ... - Marcus Hulings -2
How long have you been living ... - Scott A. Girvin -3
To Tom C - The only companies ... - Keith M. Peterson
1
Surkan, you're just in Left fi... - Randy Martin -3
Another MS funded article. So... - Jim O'Quinn -3
Linux is a threat to MS's NOS,... - Taylor Hui -2
I choose Linux. ----------... - Andre Oughton -2
Thanks, but no thanks, for the... - Kevin Sullivan -3
What about security? Micros... - Lewis A. Mettler, Esq.
3
To the author:- If you don'... - S. Mitchell -2
Blind People.... Linux will n... - Robert Downs
2
We make a living with Linux an... - Mark Bolzern -2
You obviously work for Microso... - Robert Heaven -3
I make money for MY business, ... - Douglas A. Rosser -2
To Keith Peterson and Michael ... - James Ryan -2
Linux a technician tool? Hardl... - Cesar Bola¤os -2
Wrong question!! The real que... - John Griggs -3
I am sorry, but you have just ... - Robert Long -2
Religious zealotry aside, the ... - Mario Pacheco
1
In your article you stated, "W... - Benjamin Vargas -3
There is nothing factual in th... - curt wuollet -3
Great, just what we need..anot... - Ryan Roehrich -3
Linux...it started as an exper... - Andrew Haines -2
What would convince me to run ... - Kevin Sullivan -2
Finally an article on Linux th... - Gary L. Robinson
2
I do run Linux on my network. ... - Ron Watkins -2
Mr. Surkan, Aren't you eve... - Matthew Benjamin -3
Your article appears to be fla... - Cameron Newham -3
Lewis, MS knows... That O... - Steve Goodrich -2
I'll be happy to admit that I . - Frederick W. Koehler IV -2
You ask "What would convince y... - Nick Payne -2
You are blind to Intel! Int... - Greg Leisner -2
Hm. Thanks for dignifying me a... - Stan Klimas -3
What would convince me? - S... - Chris M. Costello -2
This is totally off base. Lin... - Mark Stanford -2
I ALREADY use it on my network... - Graham J. Nicholls -3
Although I take issue with sev... - Timothy Folks -3
I would have to say that your ... - David Goldstein -3
This is addressed to Robert He... - Hubert Rozario 3
"As long as Linux remains a re... - Jack Wheatley -2
I am no way a nerd. I do good ... - R. Don Martin -3
this article was written for o... - Eitan Shefer -3
While I am computer literate (... - George Kersh -2
Other than Enterprise servers,... - Brandon S Watkins -1
I am a respectable Network adm... - Stephen Elliott -2
No revolutions in computing? ... - Bradley Dilger -3
I come to Praise.... Linux ... - Surjit Bains -2
To Hubert Rozario - There are ... - Tom C. -2
What would convince me to Linu... - Kevin O'Malley -2
are you trying to upset people... - Matt Thomas -3
You probably are still living... - Ramesh Natarajan -3
To: Hubert Rozario - I find it... - Robert Heaven -3
Dear Micheal, Who in their ... - Tom Watson -3
While it is easy to point out ... - Bruce Jackson -1
If the "FREE" product is bette... - Steven Swart -2
FINALLY! Someone at ZD who is... - Tony Karakashian 2
Already Do !!! Got myself a... - Ronald Broberg -3
Having Windows NT compete with... - Kris Steinwender -3
I think you are trying to prov... - Gareth Williams -3
To: Hubert Rozario I don't ... - Gareth Williams -2
I *AM* running linux on my net... - Stephen Villano -3
You are entitled to your oppin... - Ben Messinger -2
About what I've come to expect... - John G. Sandell -3
What would make me want to run... - Jeff Neel -2
BRAVO!!! Very good!!! Just th... - George Toft -3
Tony Kracksomething: Reliab... - Adam Hamm -3
Quote from your article: "N... - Henti Smith -3
Well, to your message about th... - Joerg Mertin -2
What I find to be rather humor... - Eric Schley -2
The Mac proved (as did the Bet... - Chris Panelas -2
I agree with you 100%. We run ... - Neal Fleisig 2
Just use Linux for one week an... - Keshav Joshi -2
I guess, according to narrow m... - rob montgomery -3
I work for a VERY large comput... - Nigel Denly -3
Its about quality - I started... - Roger Miller -2
Save this article. A couple o... - Roger Tober -3
I found your article quite tri... - Benjamin Badgley -3
I think the responses to this ... - Les Brunswick -2
Surkan was being sarcastic. I.. - John C. McCabe-Dansted -3
See the forest through the tre... - Mike Mitchell -3
I am a MCSE, with a couple of ... - Justin Hammond -1
How much would it take for me ... - tom allison -3
You fail to recognize the adva... - John Galvin -3
Finally a journalist has the c... - Robert Downs 3
IBM itself is developing ofr L... - Justin Samuels -2
Robert Downs - You MUST be kid... - Tom C. -3
>Finally a journalist has the ... - Anthony Perkins -3
When did Bill buy you? Linux ... - Jason C. Moehlman -3
What would convince me to run ... - Sean Akers -3
For all my Linux freinds who r... - Carson Ward -2
I hope you find this amusing and by the way, what's Mike doing these days?
--
Tom Watson tosiwmee |
