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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1137)	4/14/2000 9:32:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1938

This has nothing to do with Linux or any other "open" (more important) and "free" (the least important) software. Those were used as examples to refute your claim that there isn't any free software that any corporation wants to use for critical services. That was a false assertion on you part, as evidenced by both Apache and Linux and GNU tools and so on and so forth. What this has to do with is Oracle and IBM jumping on the bandwagon they built, painted and harnessed. The will be supplying the software to their own customers who necessarily will be using their databases. In the case of companies like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM, they built the bandwagon: they are championing XML publication and communication for B2B exchange of their respective databases. This leave almost no hope for CMRC in terms of licensing or selling software that has to be integrated with these back-end data systems. That was my point. Now you're running around in circles covering you own tracks in terms of that patently false statement about free software.