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To: Martin Milani who wrote (18291)	7/29/1999 1:59:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

It is hard to say that there is no market for Kiva running on LINUX..I'd say there is as much of a market for it as there is market for NT...If Sun claims to be the champion of OPEN systems they should start acting like one. Well, no... Apparently there isn't a market for this product on Linux. Otherwise they would have ported it. The press release did seem to indicate the number of customers for this $35,000 product wasn't exactly measured in the thousands. If you can find or even read about 10 people who would buy this product for their Linux server, I'm sure Sun would be interested in doing a port. No disrespect Martin but, you seem to be getting Scott McNeally (Sun CEO and champion of open standards) confused with Richard Stallman (GnuEO and open source Bolshevik). The 'open' of RMS isn't the same as open standards (although related). This appears to be a case of simple business decision. Why did Applix remove RedHat as their Linux market distributor? How about Metro X? How many Linux installations have Motif? People are flocking to Linux, sure enough, but they don't seem to be patronizing the enterprise software vendor in numbers worth noting. Sun doesn't need to prove itself to the community by doing a token port of the Netscape server to Linux. And if Sun says there isn't demand to warrant, I'm inclined to believe them. BTW, what does anyone think of the AOL messaging thing? They (AOL) released their 'realtime' chat code so that the community could port to nix, then M$ picks it up and gets access to those @aol.com addresses to pitch as potential MSN users. I'd say that AOL didn't have a very good first experience with being 'open'. Suddenly, Microsoft is talking about open standards. -JCJ