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To: E_K_S who wrote (11675)11/14/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: E_K_S  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Linux May Keep Comdex In The Spotlight
(11/13/98 1:52 p.m. ET)
(http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/comdex98/TWB19981113S0005)
From the article:
"...One of the busiest sections at Comdex may be the new Linux pavilion, where hardware and software developers will try to persuade attendees of the viability of their upstart open source platform. More than a dozen companies will promote the operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Windows 98 and Win NT..."

"...Neither Apple, IBM, Sun Microsystems, nor the U.S. Department of Justice will have booths at the event..."

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This would be a good show for SUNW and all those JINI vendors to cross promote their new "jini enabled hardware". I doubt if anything is ready yet. It will probably be next year that we see these new devices.

This year will be "The Year of LINUX" and next year will be "The Year of JINI"....MSFT will have their time in 2000 with Windows 2000...hopefully by that time there will be several other choices available that provide the end-user a seamless network connection utilizing the open standard IP protocol. I believe there will be a much larger demand for thin-client servers that will require a stable OS like Linux or Solaris. Who knows, these servers may even run using some type of optimized JVM.

If the box makers begin to provide Linux (or Solaris) as the OS of choice for their new servers, then MSFT will have a hard time servicing this growth market.

EKS
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