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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (72170)	8/16/2002 1:36:59 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

International House of Penguins wired.com And while only 3 percent of the show attendees came from outside the United States, the evidence of Linux as a global phenomenon was unmistakable. Most prominent was the announcement of a Chinese government-sponsored Linux distribution called Yangfan Linux. Built by a coalition of government, universities and private companies, the distribution will eventually replace Windows on all government computers. ... While low cost is part of Linux's international appeal, Hall said that the ability of the source code to be modified to support local languages and character sets is also a big factor. This is especially true in countries whose market may not be large enough to attract the attention of proprietary software companies. "With open source, all you need is one person with the skill and the desire to do that work, and they will do it," Hall says. ... The suits also turned out in force at LinuxWorld. IBM invited some of its 4,600 international Linux customers -- including executives from Air New Zealand, the Australian government and Deutsche Telekom -- to the show. "I must admit, I was expecting to be amongst a bunch of developers," said Air New Zealand CIO Andrew Care. "But I've been talking to people who came for the same reasons as me: to run data centers and change the way they work. There are a whole lot of commercial enterprises here. That was quite a surprise." Thanks to wired.com Best of luck. Microsoft ... we're gonna be toast on a skewer.