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

To: dybdahl who wrote (49499)	9/18/2000 11:52:29 AM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"Unix technologies suddenly have a stability record" Top 20 Linux Bugs bugnet.com FreeBSD is trouble free, NOT. freebsd.org

To: dybdahl who wrote (49499)	9/18/2000 12:01:55 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"But on the other hand, the product named 'Microsoft Linux' cannot be much further away than 2-5 years. " You mean Xenix?

To: dybdahl who wrote (49499)	9/18/2000 12:05:16 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

dybdahl - I don't know the story in Denmark, but here in the US the Visual Studio programming suite is the overwhelming favorite for development. That popularity has declined somewhat in te last few years, but still, the most frequent comment I hear is "boy, I just wish I had the kind of rich programming environment for Linux (or Solaris or whatever non-MS stack) as I have with Visual Studio". That's one reason why I think the .NET idea is a winner.

To: dybdahl who wrote (49499)	9/18/2000 12:13:06 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 74651

Hackers forming zombie army CERT Coordination Center says vandals are exploiting vulnerabilities in Unix systems -- preparing denial of service attacks. By Bob Sullivan, MSNBC September 18, 2000 5:10 AM PT The nation's government-funded computer security watchdog issued a warning Friday that computer intruders have taken control of hundreds of computers connected to the Internet. The attackers are in a position to launch a serious attack, according to the CERT Coordination Center (the report cert.org ), which said that the situation "poses a significant threat to Internet sites and the Internet infrastructure." zdnet.com