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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (44838)	5/15/2000 6:53:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 74651

Gnome is nice, but currently not mature enough to be a serious desktop system. Simple things like copy and paste still don't work everywhere between applications. Right now, KDE seems to be the desktop of choice for nix machines, and KDE is also what Corel Linux has standardized on, and presumably also the favorite desktop environment for the Delphi for Linux product. What makes Gnome interesting, though, is that: 1) You can tweak the user interface more than anything else. This makes it "cool" to use Gnome. 2) KDE and Gnome works perfectly at the same time. All software written for KDE works perfectly with Gnome, and if both are installed, you can choose between them. So in the long run, Gnome might be the winner. People were once worried that having two desktop systems would fragment the Linux market. It didn't turn out that way, because everything has to work with each other, so in reality it has cleaned up many things to have two competing technologies on the same computer. And this is again what makes Linux so nice - two technologies or software systems can co-exist on the same system, and every part can be replaced by commercial products if that is wanted. The only widespread OS product that cannot be integrated into this puzzle is Windows. The PC world today is the fight between Windows and nix, and every OS maker except MS is on the *nix side.