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To: Tom Kearney who wrote (73653)	8/13/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Respond to of 164684

Windows...the perfect example of network effects.

To: Tom Kearney who wrote (73653)	8/13/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: 16yearcycle	Respond to of 164684

Exellent post, Tom.

To: Tom Kearney who wrote (73653)	8/13/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: Eric Wells	Respond to of 164684

>>My mother, is going to learn Unix? I don't >>think so. But she CAN run NT. Excellent point. I wish there was a way I could short RHAT - of course, I would have to probably stomach short term 50-100 point gains. But I can't help but feel that RHAT will eventually settle somewhere south of 10. Thanks, -Eric

To: Tom Kearney who wrote (73653)	8/13/1999 12:29:00 PM
From: Olu Emuleomo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>>>Linux competes with Sun because if I am a Unix guy, I can now buy Intel servers, which are cheaper, and still run my favorite operating system for free.<<<< You dont understand. I work in a Solaris/NT shop right now. Solaris runs mission critical stuff that we put in High-availabilty clusters. (Downtime of 1hr = $850K!!) Forget Intel boxes. Just NOT reliable enough! Our less critical stuff runs on Dell boxes, running NT. We are slowly migrating that to Linux. Off course, our Wordprocessing/spreadsheets are still being done in NT and will continue to be the case for the forseeable future, since Win 95/98 have been banned here! --Olu E.