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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: t2 who wrote (28176)	8/13/1999 5:20:00 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 74651

Hi Tech and thread. Back from the southwest. (Sob). Catching up on reading. That Linux story was something else! Jill

To: t2 who wrote (28176)	8/13/1999 5:32:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 74651

the only Linux we should hear about in a few years is the character on Charlie Brown. Heh. heh. But really, even if Linux server-share stopped growing today, it's doubtful that it would lose the important niche market that is already firmly established. The pages we're reading right now are an excellent example of this. Most of us are probably looking at them on Wintel machines with a Microsoft OS in a Microsoft browser, but that's as deep as Microsoft products get on these pages. The page you're looking at was generated on a Linux server and fed to you through an open-source Apache server. If you're looking at the .gsp blue/gray pages on the new servers, then it was Java behind the scenes putting all the pieces together. If you're looking at the old .talk pages, they were also generated on Linux, but with different background processing. That doesn't just happen here on SI. Throughout the web, Linux servers have established themselves. You can also find hundreds of sites using Microsoft servers and probably more to come, but the point is that Linux has carved out a niche among web publishers and ISPs. Just as Apple managed to keep their small niche market through a decade of incredible mistakes (and despite their astounding inability to release a real multi-tasking OS), Linux could maintain its share even if the "community" makes mistakes in the next few years.