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

To: keithsha who wrote (46291)	6/9/2000 9:10:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Nice try, keithsha. Did you notice, that you post was transferred to SiliconInvestor using the Apache software, that is part of every Linux distribution? Probably not. But in fact, you are a GNU software user - welcome in the club. I don't know what you mean by real work, but NASA, IBM, US Goverment (DOJ?), General Motors, Yahoo! and many european banks run GNU/Linux software. European Banks even use it for homebanking. Homebanking is both security AND transactions in big amounts. How much more real work do you need? If you need examples, please contact the sales departments of Compaq, IBM, Motorola, Red Hat, SAP, Oracle, Interbase etc. Right now we are involved in a GNU/Linux based project that will result in an administrative program for analyzing failure statistics in nuclear power plants and in the oil industry. Linux was chosen because the final solution will be more valuable in their combined Unix/Windows LANs. I now know you live in a different world, the MSFT world, but more and more systems are designed for GNU/Linux, and I don't see many Windows platform specific new developments with a big future, and the most common question in our local programmer User Group is "How do I make this Windows app a platform-INDEPENDANT web-solution the easiest way?" I know that several programmers have told their companies to wait for Kylix and make the software run X-Windows on Linux. You are totally wrong about porting between Unix deviants. The new Kylix from Inprise/Borland even makes it possible to develop nice GUI apps, that easily port between Unix/Linux and Windows. And I usually test my FreeBSD applications on Linux, and many Windows programs are developed on Linux. If you ever play Windows 3D games like Half-Life, you might see a message like "Loading linux.dll". MSFT will survive great because there are many that think like you. And before they learned about the alternative, the world has changed again. You are not alone. I'm earning good money on Linux, better than I earned with Windows, and my customers are more satisfied, work is more fun and we have sold more Linux servers than we ever expected to sell Windows servers. We just delivered 9 Linux servers to a customer. It took us 7 manhours to set them up, connect them, install Linux on all of them, configure them (file server, printer server, web-server, DNS, router, time-server and automatic backup via ISDN), and to configure the PCs that should use these new servers. And it just works and works and works... I don't expect us to service these servers the next couple of years. Maybe then a fan has to be changed or a dust filter has to be wiped. Easy money.