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To: Pink Minion who wrote (751)	8/23/1999 5:22:00 AM
From: Ojing Eo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

dailynews.yahoo.com Digital/Compaq killed their WinNT/Win2000 project for Alpha. Been talking to DIGITAL to do official support for RH Linux. DIGITAL might take on that role for an organization for $$. Red Hat knows that it must not be a bottleneck in spreading LINUX. We would support DIGITAL's support team. Ojing

To: Pink Minion who wrote (751)	8/23/1999 7:08:00 AM
From: who cares?	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Even a shorter should be able to figure out the implication of this The implications of that for Red Hat are nil. I doubt there's a single thing about Linux that Red Hat could teach the guys at these colleges that hook 100's of boxes together to make a supercomputer, those guys could probably help Red Hat from time to time, but not the other way around. They also will not be buying 200 copies, or even 1 copy of Red Hat Linux, to think so is preposterous. Since they would have a T1 or better, they would simply take 30 seconds or so to download a newer, probably better version of Linux, add to it what they need, and go from there. To install it on the machines they either burn it on a CD or two and send some flunky from machine to machine, or maybe they have some trick way of doing it over the network. Again, it's a great use for Linux, but that doesn't mean squat to Red Hat's bottom line, not dollar one. Same thing if big corporations start to adapt this style of cheap supercomputing. If they do it, they're not going to contact Red Hat and tell them "gee, I just bought a copy of your Linux down at Best Buy, now how about talking me through installing it on 200 computers and to make a supercomputer." For a company or anyone else to adopt this approach they will have people on hand that are well versed in Linux. This type of person is not rare at all on the college level. I had a grad student friend that put Linux on his 386 about 5 years ago, and he was no programming guru, I can't imagine what students are able to do with it today. Mr.Burns