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To: rudedog who wrote (41457)	2/21/2001 11:03:22 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

If the installation is academic, I'd be surprized that Sun went after it too. Maybe they really didn't. As a SUNW investor, I'm just as jazzed by a GNU/Linux win in academia as a Sun/Solaris win. Those Linux admins get a big raise when they become Sun Certified (like 50%). That the 'Linux' professional aspires to become Sun Certified is 'academic'. Of course, Sun's big thing is 'scalability' (something so many people don't understand). It's not really applicable in this Australian installation. More and more, the IT decisions are being made by the geeks, and the thing that wins is 'the thing that works'. That's bad for MS and good for the tiered nix platform. In the case of IP servers, good for the tiered *nix platform tuned to the processor for robust and scalable ...branding <g> -JCJ

To: rudedog who wrote (41457)	2/21/2001 11:05:50 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

If the installation is academic, I'd be surprized that Sun went after it too. Maybe they really didn't. As a SUNW investor, I'm just as jazzed by a GNU/Linux win in academia as a Sun/Solaris win. Those Linux admins get a big raise when they become Sun Certified (like 50%). That the 'Linux' professional aspires to become Sun Certified is 'academic'. Of course, Sun's big thing is 'scalability' (something so many people don't understand). It's not really applicable in this Australian installation. More and more, the IT decisions are being made by the geeks, and the thing that wins is 'the thing that works'. That's bad for MS and good for the tiered nix platform. In the case of IP servers, good for the tiered *nix platform tuned to the processor for robust and scalable ...branding <g> -JCJ