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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (26038)	3/15/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (2) of 42771

Some features of Linux in a developer's environment A few years ago Microsoft introduce NT4 to the software developers of the world. NT, so they said, would allow you as a software developer to leave your EXPENSIVE unix machine (Sun,HP you name it) and use a wonderful graphics user interface on a Windows like workstation to do the same thing. The message was --- port your application to Windows NT and take advantage of a cheap and powerful Intel box. Then of course developers had their wonderful experience with buggy NT. Now comes Linux. If you go over to cheapbytes.com you can pay $6 and get a complete Debian 2.1 Linux release that includes ALL OF THE SOURCE CODE FOR THE OPERATING SYSTEM AND ALL OF THE PACKAGES THAT COME WITH IT. That means if you are a developer you have a UNIX platform that runs on a PC for $6. You get all of the source code for the OS and the OS utilities. If you need to fix something you can see the code. There are hundred of people on the net that will help you if you encounter an OS problem. That reminds me of what IBM did for developers with DOS when it published the source code for the DOS. Anybody try to get source code from Microsoft lately? Or get them to address any of hundreds of problems with their OS's? Thus Linux becomes the preferred platform for UNIX developers using PCs. You have control over Linux because of that source code. The threat to Microsoft is right in their bread and butter --- that future applications servers connected up to corporate networks may be running Linux rather than NT. The app migration path will no longer be to move the UNIX app running on the mini-computer to NT on the Intel box, but rather move it to Linux on the Intel box. ======================= Linux --- the operating system that was build using a proven and tested architecture --- UNIX. Windows 2000 --- the operating system that is being built without any design at all --- a typical Gates "hack".

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