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To: Mohammed Bhimji who wrote (8208)	12/18/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 9798

Well Mohammed, there are a few holes in your argument. Bob Young of Redhat made many speeches (pre IPO) where he said one of the goals of Redhat was to take the 5 billion dollar OS market and reduce it to 500 million. Linux is doing that slowly. So even with major penetration of the market this photo showing 13 dollars (sales value) worth of Linux distributions tends to demonstrate that the Linux OS has virtually zero sales value. watman.com Now for this ever growing Linux penetration there is no predominate apps in any way similar to MS office. There is compition here also and that indicates the the sale value of app software in Linux space in areas like word processing is limited. Another rule that I believe applies is that application adoption is ruled from business/office to home migration path. So here I see no predominate player. But in how I see that adoption of Linux and the reasons for adoption of Linux from it current server space to desktop space I'd say that Corl apps have just OK use value to business. Corl apps simply may fill current uses. What is the next step in business productivity enhancement? In Fri IBD Technology and Computer section, how big is CRM..? 18 billion by 2002. investors.com I agree that CRM will be a new revolution of business productivity. What is the next step after that? Real time CRM. So is there a sorta Linux company that has that kind of technology? Use value.... An office suite that has the elements for CRM and that has development tools. Kinda like a visual basic on the shelf. A real time engine that can feed this and the next generation of business automation. Now early on, Linux is still to many a bastard child. So having apps that run on Linux and real OSes, current commercial OSes is important to early adoption consideration. (Now I believe that Linux is THE real Unix but then I'm considered wacky by most) But is this technology real? Has any company used and demonstrated this capability???? Well if your interested, Message 12309069 Tom Watson tosiwmee