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Technology Stocks : Applix is back in action -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (2881)	12/1/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3014

Follow on the the Best Business Solution noframes.linuxjournal.com is the link to the linux jounal article on line. The Best Business Solution is at the bottom of the page. Best Business Solution: Burlington Coat Factory Inspired by summer interns who wanted Linux on their workstations, Burlington Coat Factory installed 1,250 Linux machines from Dell in its 264 stores. So bright enthusiastic college student spread an idea. Applixware was made available to college students by applix a couple of years ago. A German company evaluating Linux Office 99 (applixware ala suse) ordered .5 million in applix software. This is the seed corn of success. The rest of the article. In spite of popular allegations that Linux is unsupported and has no software, Red Hat is providing the Red Hat Linux distribution and technical support, while Applixware is providing the business software and additional support. (all long term users of Linux are amazed at the stupidity of this fud. It would also be nice of the editor's of Linux Journal understood that the company is Applix and Applixware is the product) Burlington Coat Factory CIO Mike Prince has long been known for his ability to pick up on technologies early; his track record includes adopting UNIX and Java long before everyone else, for example. (Now sun has been hyping unix for business for years, it could also provided this solution but at what additional cost.) Once again, Linux is proving itself in an extremely successful company, with Red Hat and Applixware showing that Linux firms are enthusiastic to provide software and support. More people may come to embrace Linux not only as a moral alternative to proprietary software but as a practical business solution, viable even for businesses that aren't high-powered computing firms crawling with engineers. Now it seems to me that the only enterprise software that requires legions of high-powered engineers are in companies using software that allows a new email virus every week to destroy the corporate data in employee's PC's. Yes the Y2K bugs are real and the latest version with 10 million new lines of infected code may be out next year. I guess that this is suggesting that in many companies some very highly paid decisions makers feel no pain when they get zipped in the butt. Well No Brain ..... No Pain... So now I'm looking for companies who are adopting Linux based enterprise solutions. These companies will have sharply increased productivity and thus should provide excellent shareholder value. Tom Watson tosiwmee