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To: chic_hearne who wrote (35650)	9/21/2000 1:48:03 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

Sounds like pretty dire news for MSFT. Sounds like a good reason for SUNW to buy a little Linux company. --QS

To: chic_hearne who wrote (35650)	9/21/2000 2:34:38 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Seriously, chic, do you realise how completely that Linux-out-of-school piece you posted is good for Sun (and Unix in general), rather than bad for Sun as you and the article seem to imply? What's the upshot of new grads having Linux experience? You think it means they've worked with the kernel and written device drivers? Hell no. Maybe 5 in 100 of them have done that. It means they've used the shell, perl, the C-compiler and maybe done some web page work and some open source database like MySQL. And that's it, period. Even if they had done all their undergrad and most graduate work with Sun equipment, it doesn't mean they could come out of school and start to run big complicated server farms. Is the difference that now they know Gnome instead of Sun's dated-UNIX-GUI-of-the-month flavor? Who cares? This comparison between new-grad Linux knowledge and new-grad Unix knowledge is 98.9887% a distinction without a difference. That IDG article was "dead accurate to what is happening" on a slow news day. As I said, the pervasiveness of Linux in higher education is a plus for Sun, not a minus. --QS