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To: tbigb who wrote (56565)	3/10/2001 8:00:28 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Re: Linux I disagree. Linux's future is very bright and will coexist quite nicely with a robust future for Windows. What won't survive is proprietary flavors of Unix. IBM has basically admitted defeat with AIX and is now very committed to using Linux as a tool to unseat SUNW/Solaris from Unix accounts and my sense is that HWP and CPQ are not far behind in reaching this same conclusion. DELL, of course, never had their own proprietary Unix and so is already in the Linux camp for customers wanting a Unix based OS, as is INTC. This will make SUNW even more of the odd-man-out than they are currently, but that seems to suit them. On the academic front, Linux is already the de facto standard in university computer science departments around the world and this will ensure a continual supply of Linux talent entering the workforce for many years to come. BSD is clearly on the wane here.

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