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Technology Stocks : Microsoft vs. Linux -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cola Can who wrote (1)	1/30/2001 8:02:24 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 32

no doubt dude! they will buy them!

To: Cola Can who wrote (1)	1/31/2001 10:18:54 AM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 32

People don't use Linux "to get away from Microsoft", but to get a better product. When the market requires solutions to run Linux, MSFT has three choices: 1) Ignore the money they could make on that market. 2) Deliver software for Linux but not the OS. 3) Deliver a complete Linux solution including the OS. It doesn't take much to see, that if Linux continues to grow, as it has done the last 9 years, Microsoft will have to do 2) or 3) to satisfy investors. And since most software companies would like to be able to deliver all software that runs on a computer, option 3) will come. The only question is: When? Microsoft .net is a good excuse to start delivering Linux software. Since .net has to run on several platforms, their CLI technology needs to run on Linux, too. They have a deal with Corel, that they will do some stuff on that. MSFT already provided source-code to an open-source project: Perl. Mainly in order to make it Unicode compatible on Windows NT, but since Perl is often considered Unix/Linux technology, and is open-source, they already begun. Lars.