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Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jerry Whlan who wrote (1498)	9/18/2000 11:41:10 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 1794

I'll always bet on a marketing and sales company selling OK technology over an OK technology company trying to do marketing and sales. The particular companies mentioned are not relavent to the point. Redhat owns a brand name for a product that is zero cost. Anyone can buy one and make a million copies and sell it as original redhat and add in their own service for more of a fee. Yes some percentage will be drawn to redhat, but unlike the pigware from msft Linux scales and after an initial few month ramp up the same amount of support is needed for a few or a thousand systems. I've installed Linux on systems and after a brief intro to the user I never ever was called back. Linux runs and runs and once set up never needs support. Linux out of the box comes with everything needed for full secure remote support and update. But Linux does not need it. I download rpm's and source and it always seems to work. rpm -U .... and .configure are not complicated. Tom Watson tosiwmee