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To: JC Jaros who wrote (2052)	1/10/2000 1:09:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

I.B.M. to Use Linux System in Internet Software By STEVE LOHR New York Times nytimes.com IBM, the standard-bearer of mainstream corporate computing, plans to announce Monday that it is placing a big bet on Linux, a symbol of software's counterculture, as the operating system of the future for the Internet. ... In a memo last Friday to Louis V. Gerstner Jr., the IBM chairman, and to the rest of the senior management team, Samuel Palmisano, a senior vice president, described the rise of Linux as "an important shift in the technology world," as companies use the Internet more and more to overhaul their businesses. "The next generation of e-business will see customers increasingly demand open standards for interoperability across disparate platforms," Palmisano wrote. "Linux -- a community-developed version of Unix -- will play a pivotal role in this. We will embrace Linux." ... The Linux announcement, according to analysts, is evidence that IBM is increasingly nimble in recognizing and reacting to new technologies. "IBM wants to make sure it's in the running as Linux develops over the next few years," said Jonathan Eunice, president of Illuminata, a research firm in Nashua, N.H. "It's a smart play, but a bit speculative." Linux does seem to be gaining ground rapidly in the corporate world, at least as an operating system used for new applications for electronic commerce on the World Wide Web. A recent poll of more than 2,000 information technology managers by survey.com, an online research service, found that they planned to increase applications development for Linux and BSD, the other main open-source operating system, by up to 500 percent over the next two years. "It's astonishing growth," said Dave Trowbridge, a senior analyst for survey.com. "The era of proprietary standards is dead. The Internet is changing the way software is developed." From the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition IBM to Boost Use and Marketing of the Linux Operating System interactive.wsj.com

To: JC Jaros who wrote (2052)	1/10/2000 6:13:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

The trouble with the laser ring clock is that the earth moves and the mirrors lengthen the path on the south side if the beam is counterclockwise and shorten it on the north side. If you split the beam and send it both ways then I guess it would even out. But if the clock moved the pathlength would change and so would the perceived time. The interference figure that would be caused by the light beams co-inciding moves slowly clockwise (in the north) around the ring. Its rate of travel depends on the latitude as the ratio of the south length to the north length changes as you go north. If you knew the exact attitude and position of the ring, it would be a fair clock. The GPS method of correcting time for the known position gives time accurate to 1 in 10^8 I think. Just a GPS at one locale and broadcast time would be better than say a timex. The preceding has been pseudo scientific B.S. courtesy of the Brothers Grimm and a loose amalgam of the inflated hyperegomanical imagination and the wildest ravings of the certified street lunatic, Jeremiah P. Quigley-Jones (no fixed address, PA) . Any resemblance to a scientific theory is merely resonant with the depths of the average person's ignorance of physical world. If the preceding made any sense to you whatsoever you are urged to place yourself under psychatric care without delay. EC<:-}