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To: QwikSand who wrote (24538)	12/10/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: cfimx	Respond to of 64865

qwik, did you mention how linux is a GOOD thing for sun.com? <G>

To: QwikSand who wrote (24538)	12/10/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

one SERIOUS question: >>I don't see what stands in the way of tens of millions of Linux desktops. Dell, GTW, and all the old-line M$FT captive boxmakers will be forced by the existing "white box" culture and other upstart competition to bundle Linux as an option, and the DOJ will stop, or has stopped, Microsoft from contractually blocking them from doing so. << where is this groundswell of demand for linux on the desktop going to come from your qwikness? 1) will it be corporate users , who i bet are just chomping at the bit to make wholesale changes to their environments. 2) consumers, who will chuck all the quicken and games and aol for a chance to muck around with linux. if it aint THEM qwik, who is it?

To: QwikSand who wrote (24538)	12/10/1999 3:12:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

I think there *is 'explicit endorsement' of the paradigm shift from software to hardware (RHAT aside). Corel didn't move for MONTHS in a way that indicated 'Linux' meant server and not desktop to investors. I find such irony that "Linux", a poster child for the absense of 'brand' is going so 'Tulip' in a market that is realizing that the OS nowadays only matters to the hardware vendor. I'm holding (and milking) CORL for it's tulip aspect. I don't think there are going to be a whole lot of people rushing out to buy Dell boxes with a Linux desktop, or ANY desktop. There's certainly a need for corporations to get off of the M$ upgrade merry-go-round and desktop Linux with free 'productivity suites' can go a long way in raising the actual productivity of the legacy desktop PCs. I think the market is beginning to get the whole bandwith/service/webtop thing. Moreover, there's a general sense that Coke (M$) is in trouble and Pepsi (Sun) gets the benefit. -JCJ