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To: g_m10 who wrote (7192)9/3/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Roger Bass  Read Replies (2) of 8545
 
OFF TOPIC,

Hi g_m,

I personally am interested in Linux, but tend to think of it in terms of 'what new OSes might become more widely used as apps move to the web'. The internet is a far more interesting new platform than any small (albeit fast growing) new OS per se. In the computing world, revolutions tend to happen where someone has changed the rules of the game, rather than because they're much better at competing on the old rules (and I mean the business side, not the technology).

Also, the market the Intuit serves is the mass consumer and small business market; not servers, not engineers. The fact that Quicken may be widely used within the community of Linux users does not mean that that group is significant within the broad group of Intuit customers.

So, in brief, users of any new OS are likely to get Intuit application functionality sooner in some web-centric way than through a port of the applications to Linux or any other OS.

Roger.
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