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To: t2 who wrote (19249)	3/29/1999 11:11:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) of 74651

If Linux has legs, and it seems to, then MSFT will be able to define the niche for Linux by writing apps for that platform before others do. For example, MS SQL Server for Linux. There is a lot more money in SQL Server license than there is for NT or W2K. If Linux is a good server platform, why not corner the RDBMS market for the box. The alternative is to risk someone else successfully creating the de facto RDBMS for Linux. Another option is for MSFT to take the Linux code and create its own extensions for a new version of Linux from MSFT. In effect that is excactly what MSFT did with Netscape. This is all pretty crazy, but not really that far-fetched.

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