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To: hjz who wrote (95980)	5/3/2000 8:16:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 120523

Linux....."the popular, open-operating system is a customer-driven phenomenon that's inevitable in the evolution of computing. He compares what's happening to the computer industry's embrace of TCP/IP, the standard for transmitting data over the Internet, which replaced proprietary network protocols and allowed different types of computers easily to exchange data.http://www.redherring.com/insider/2000/0503/tech-ibmlinux050300.html IBM KNOWS WHAT TIME IT IS "Linux is designed by the most brilliant people in the world and it can run on anybody's platform," he says, sounding unlike a representative of a company that has been promoting obscure operating systems such as the AIX version of Unix and OS 390. He says the market for new sales of Linux hardware, applications, and services will make up for any revenue shortfall as customers turn away from these operating systems."