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To: ild who wrote (141888)	1/6/2002 3:19:16 PM
From: NOW	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

any link: i'll buy one...

To: ild who wrote (141888)	1/6/2002 4:25:30 PM
From: Mike M2	Respond to of 436258

Ild, interesting. I wonder if MSFT & INTC will complain to the justice dept. about unfair trade & predatory pricing - VBG I bought a Compaq Presario with a Cryix 133 MHz in 1997 and it runs fine - no problems but I finally retired it. mike

To: ild who wrote (141888)	1/6/2002 5:13:31 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Totally useless unless it runs the most popular applications. WORD EXCEL ADOBE etc. 80% of companies have likely standardized around those products, people going into businesses are expected to know them IMO. A nice PC running some obscure software packages (if they exist at all), is simply not going to make any headway where it counts. 80% is a guess and perhaps it is way off. More important is market share and total number of PCs running WORD/EXCL/ADOBE vs the others as opposed to actual % of companies. LINUX is living in dreamland unless and until it can run off the shelf major applications. Until it can do that it is no more that a toy for techo-geeks. Even if it could, it will be a very very very slow conversion by businesses off NT. Now, if there is total disgust over XP AND there is software, I suppose it could happen sooner than never, but I doubt it. LINUX is thus dead, and will remain so, much the same as Experanto as a universal language is dead as well, regardless of its obvious merits. Too much resistance to change, lack of a clear catalyst, and in the case of LINUX: lack of familiar software (if I am correct in that it will not run off the shelf applications people are familiar with). NOT GONNA HAPPEN. M