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To: Jack Whitley who wrote (801)	8/25/1999 1:22:00 AM
From: Nelson Chang	Respond to of 1794

>>>As a registered user of one CD, you will get a certain number of support minutes/calls/questions commensurate with your $75 fee. Once you exceed a predefined number of support calls, you will pay extra for more. In a 500 machine environment, you would quickly exceed the threshold for 1 $75 license. If you buy and register 500 copies, your support call threshold will be higher before you begin paying on a per call basis. You want consulting on how to build a mainframe from 10 desktops and a SAN, become a "Platinum" customer, etc, etc. The possibilities are endless.<<< Jack, great info. Thanks... ----------------------------- >>>So Nelson, if you don't care how a company is going to create revenue to support a given stock price, Then I guess one can consider a lottery ticket an investment also.<<< And to you Thomas, the so called "linux guru", where in the world do you go off saying this stuff? Did I ever say that I don't care how a company is making money??? Some people. Call them a "guru", and they think they're king of the world. ------------------------------- I'm addressing others here. Regarding this "ynot" character. Make your own conclusions but when someone says a stock is a 3-bagger, from current price to "low 20's", and they have no position in the stock, what does this say? To me - either this person is full of it and lacks conviction in what he is saying, or believes something else in the direction of the stock. Give me a break.

To: Jack Whitley who wrote (801)	8/25/1999 4:35:00 AM
From: JP Sullivan	Respond to of 1794

As a registered user of one CD, you will get a certain number of support minutes/calls/questions commensurate with your $75 fee. Once you exceed a predefined number of support calls, you will pay extra for more. But isn't Linux supposed to be super stable? Why would it be necessary to make all those calls? Shouldn't the sys admin be able to handle the day to day glitches, which according to Linux fans, are extremely rare? The thing about Windows that has users so worked up is the instability of the beast. In some perverse way, Microsoft and its buggy software have done right by hordes of technical support engineers, probably creating more employment than Linux will for a long time to come. Furthermore, since Linux is known to virtually every CS graduate walking out of college these days, isn't it relatively simple to hire a sys admin or two to support my 500 workstations? Besides, with Linux being so well behaved and all, I could get those sys admins to do other stuff, like maybe develop small applications to perform mundane chores to simplify life for my users. My sys admins would be in techie heaven, and I wouldn't need to depend on an outside vendor like Red Hat. You want consulting on how to build a mainframe from 10 desktops and a SAN, become a "Platinum" customer, etc, etc. If I want professional consulting, why do I need to go to Red Hat? Why not go to the guys down the street? My view is that by being the first kid on the Linux-IPO block, Red Hat has visibility and market recognition, which is a real cachet for now. But as more and more players --large, small, and tiny-- enter the field, offering exactly the same kind of product and services, how long will it be before profits are squeezed to nothing? Unlike you-know-who that owns its products, Red Hat cannot call the shots on Linux. Hopefully, the company evolves quickly away from its present business model before the field gets too crowded. Just playing the devil's advocate :)