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To: David R who wrote (4560)	2/15/2000 7:47:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (1) of 5102

David, I can't help but chuckle when I read an article that talks about MSFT in such negative light, and assumes that they are near-death. It reminds me of the time in the early eighties when all the analysts and programmers like me declared that the mainframe was dead. I think each new generation of developers has a need to feel like they are overturning the status quo. We also embraced relational database technology over hierarchical, which happened. Linux on the server definitely has legs. The next machine I buy will be a server and I plan to install Linux for web development to check it out. I thought the new paradigm was net centric, server based computing, so why merge with a company that betting on the fat client on linux? If the world is changing to a thin client browser-based computing what?s the big deal about a company that intends to offer a fat Linux client (locally installed apps like Corel). Why exchange one fat client for another? Tom

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