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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (65847)	1/21/2000 10:21:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108040

Hang onto your LNUX.........."the majority of students graduating with computer-related degrees have experience of the Unix operating system. Add to this the large amount of Unix-related experience already in place in most MIS departments, and Linux really does allow you to leverage the experience of your existing and potential staff. As has been said, Linux is not a solution for everything but it is likely to provide Microsoft with stiff competition in the serious business arena. More importantly, if the US government does win its case with Microsoft, then the likely outcome will be a divorce between the Microsoft operating systems and general software divisions. This would expose Windows NT to the full force of competition from Linux and that would be extremely positive for the entire market." ......."Canadian software maker Corel scored a significant contract win and a minor public relations victory when it announced that the Justice Department will begin to widely use the company's office productivity software...MSFT's loss.........It appears that MSFT will be punished severely by the Government leaving a HUGE "window" of opportunity for linux.