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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (54124)	5/15/2003 10:36:43 PM
From: Marc Hyman	Respond to of 64865

Linux hurts Solaris and Windows sales... Unlikely. The people who are buying big Solaris boxes aren't interested in what Linux has to offer. Now they may be interested in what IBM has to offer, but Linux isn't the selling point in that situation. As for Linux hurting Windows -- I'll believe it when I see Microsoft start to loose money. R&D costs are very high Guess: the biggest software R&D cost is manpower. When manpower is free (volunteer labor) software R&D costs are minimal. This has been true for a long time and is one of the reasons that many of the software enhancements of the past came from the education system, i.e. a system with free labor. Sometimes corporate R&D is better because the corporation provides needed focus. Other times "free" R&D is better because early bad decisions can be easily tossed, something that is much harder to do in a corporate environment. // marc