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Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RobbRacer who wrote (300)	8/11/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: S.C. Barnard	Respond to of 1794

From Raging Bull: By: pmlm760a Reply To: 591 by sfortana Your missing what is important here. Everyone loves to hate MS and with good reason. Linux is a better OS than Win9x or NT. It's a bit harder to learn and use for now, but that will change. Linux is getting better and stronger every day. Right now Linux is steadily eating away at the server market share of MS and will continue to do so. Where Red Hat comes in is simple. They make it painless to aquire and use Linuz. Everything you need is on a couple of CD's. You also get full and up to date documentation as well as techinical support. Sure you can download it for free if you want. When is the last time YOU tried to download over 700 megs? How many days can you spare? what is you lose your connection along the way or get some bad data packets? Sure you can buy the $1.89 CD copy, but what are you going to do for support and documentation? You going spend days downloading that too? How much paper you have handy? Is that downloaded documentation accurate to your Kernel build? Red Hat is doing well and will continue to do well because they have taken a very good operating system, sorted out the best parts, documented it, apckaged it with killer applications and provide technical support. Exactly what a business wants. No corporation is going to download an unsupported and undocumented version even if they could do it just a few hours over a T3 line. Also note that Red Hat has great PR and marketing going for it now. The same thing that put Windows ahead of the MAC OS which happens to be better than Windows. It does not matter that there are others out there doing the same thing. NOBODY knows who they are. RedHat has all the tech backing and the others don't. Even if they get some they will always be trying to play catch up to RedHat the same way Prodigy & MSN keep trying and FAILING to catch up with AOL. Now AOL su*kc , but they are still out front. I firmly believe RedHat is here to stay and their stock will be next Amazon.com Just wait till they have a version that is simple enough to put on a personal PC for home use that the average Joe can use.