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To: KENNETH DOAN who wrote (567)	8/15/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: Pink Minion	Respond to of 1794

Sorry to bud in. But this is my reasoning for RHAT business, even if Linux is free. If I am a big company, and has been using MS NT for sometime now and after paying millions to MS. I will scrap all my servers and get Linux for free, and than go and pay millions more to have my MIS go back to school to learn Linux operating system? Does that make any sense? Your company will be out of business. Yahoo, Mindspring, all the "New" companies use systems that don't crash and cost a fortune to run. All graduates will know it. While the pointy hair Dilbert's are rebooting their machines in America, the rest of the world will be blowing right by them. MH

To: KENNETH DOAN who wrote (567)	8/15/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: Kimberly Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1794

Kenneth, no, you aren't budding in. From the very beginning, several weeks prior to RHAT went public, I have long maintained that I like RHAT the stock for a short-termed trade, within the first two weeks of the IPO. I have never, never expressed any illsuion about the company's long-termed prospects. People need to make the clear and unmistakable distinction between short-termed trades and long-termed investments. Many in this thread and elsewhere tend to merge these two separate and distinct concepts to the detriment of both. exchange2000.com

To: KENNETH DOAN who wrote (567)	8/16/1999 1:01:00 AM
From: Eric Sandeen	Respond to of 1794

If I am a big company, and has been using MS NT for sometime now and after paying millions to MS. I will scrap all my servers and get Linux for free, and than go and pay millions more to have my MIS go back to school to learn Linux operating system? Does that make any sense? It makes about as much sense to me as sending all of my horse and buggy drivers to school to learn about these new-fangled horseless carriage things. :-) Linux is not just different, something else to be learned. IMHO, it's superior, and you run some risks if you don't keep up. Linux will make inroads into corporate America in incremental steps - servers here and there, a router, and maybe eventually to the desktop. I think you'd be foolish to not retrain some of your employees. There was a Red Hat dog and pony show for business leaders, and Bob Young asked the audience how many of them used Linux on the desktop. Maybe one hand went up. Then he asked how many of them used Linux in an official server capacity. Several hands went up. Then he asked how many people thought Linux was in use somewhere on their network even though they didn't know about it - almost every hand went up.