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CNBC- MARKET WATCH TECH 2000 WITH CNBC'S RENAY SAN MIGUEL FEBRUARY 2, 2000 SUMMARY: San Miguel looks at major support for Linux. He reports from the Linux World Expo. Consuelo: Tech 2000 is on location at the Linux World Expo this week in New York City. Let's catch up with Renay San Miguel. Good morning, Renay. What's the word? Well, the word is that this is third Linux World Conference ever, but the first one to be held on the East Coast. So, that means the audience here is going to be more than just usual software programmers and I.T. professionals and usual crowd. It means that Wall Street and the financial community is also among the audience here today. Because Linux has gone from being technology story, a software story if you will, to be a big money story, thanks to some major huge IPOs that we saw last year, from Red Hat and VA Linux Systems. And that's why among the people that you are be being walk around in hallways here today at the center all the way through Thursday you will also find some potential investors checking out the works from over 150 Linux-based companies that are showing their wares here today. A lot of colors are being flown here, penguin being the mascot of the Linux community. Now, once again to remind you Linux is a form of the Unix operating system software. Unix used to be used by universities and scientists and things like that because of major data crunching abilities. But with the growth of the Internet, it has moved into that arena because it handles a lot of data. The difference with Linux, though unlike Microsoft Windows is that Linux is free. You can download the basic core code, if you will, of Linux on the Web. And it is also open source. That means any programmer in the world, any software developer, can tinker with it and make it better software, if will you. And that's why anybody at Microsoft were to suggest Windows becomes open source, they would get laughed out of Washington. Not given the speech the keynote speech this morning was man who invented Linux finished software developer, and he addressed some of questions that people have brought up since it has become a such hot issue in the tech field. But the major thing that he wanted to stress was that as some of the major computer companies are beginning to discover, is that Linux can be good for business. What we have seen is that Linux has the potential to succeed in just about any market. In fact it has succeeded very surprisingly well in varied markets, ranging from super computers down to I mean, things that you would not even consider to be a computer because they are small and feeble. And you don't use them as a computer. Now, that's why you have Dell announcing this week putting Linux in some of it's laptop computers and Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, IBM especially, IBM all within last six months have announced major support for Linux in not just the servers, those big machines that help power the Internet, but also in desk tops and workstations. So, those are some of the big challenges going forward is to make Linux even more user friendly and bring more mainstream. So that not just the tech folks, but also those who just want to use it at home as an alternative to Microsoft Windows can be able to install and run all the programs they want on their home computer. That's really the dream for Linux over the next few years. Renay San Miguel reporting live from the Convention Center in New York City. Ted, back to you. Ted: Our producer would like you to bring back pens, paperweights. You want stuffed penguins and stuff like that? Ted: Yes. Just grab a shopping bag. Thank you, Renay San Miguel.