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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (1735)	9/17/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 2617

Rusty, last month I went to a PC users group meeting and I saw a 340 meg ibm hard disk that occupied the space of a silver dollar. I can see all kinds of small devices using Linux. Linux has some of the best development tools and they are also for free. A credit card linux computer is doable. But I see also more and more desktop penetration with the dirt cheap PC and the public at large is still ignorant of apps in a browser like applixanyware.com The other little didy that no-one realizes is that if you put you finger on an clocked CPU running linux idling it's cold to the touch. If you put you finger on a CPU at spec clock idling a borg virus you get a blister. Linux created by engineers persuing elegance and excellence. Some other opinions on Linux. IDC Forum: Linux to storm to number two slot by 2001 webserv.vnunet.com The Netcraft Web Server Survey netcraft.com Tom Watson tosiwmee.