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Strategies & Market Trends : Trader J's Inner Circle -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Trader J who wrote (25355)	1/3/2000 9:39:00 PM
From: Canuck Dave	Respond to of 56535

My 2 cents on Linux: I suspect it might go the way of HP Vue. In 1991, I started using HP Vue, a nice interface that sat on top of UNIX and made a lot of things easier to do. When I got a new job in 1994 and we all had spanking new IBM AIX workstations, surprise, the operating system looked and acted a lot like Hp Vue. What had happened of course is that Sun, HP, IBM and a few others I forget had decided to adopt a common look and feel which the user interfaced with (the name for it escapes me). The flavours of UNIX were still there, but you didn't have them get in your way. It looked like the manufacturers had gone to great lengths to undo all the damage done by the existence of different versions of UNIX. I suspect a similar consortium(s?) will emerge for Linux to defeat Bill Gates principle advantage over open source. "How do you evolve and maintain a public operating system without the Tower of Babylon problem?" CD

To: Trader J who wrote (25355)	1/3/2000 9:42:00 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 56535

<<Wes, I think you and I are the technical people here on the thread.>> as such,for a guy who got his first computer(my present one) in 1996,you guys are essential to me:) as Triff knows,however,i am an expert at growing sweet peas:) which has made me think i am not going to scratch GDEN off my list,as this is one area where e-tail could really prosper. EBAY,that plague--i see used another of it nine lives with big rally due to it getting the 2nd slot for most visited e-tail site---but wait until people find out that isn't going to translate into dollars--max