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To: KLP who wrote (16043)	11/14/2003 1:33:46 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793600

Someday, someone will make a better mousetrap (pun?) than M'Soft does, spend the money to build it, manufacture it, advertise it, etc...and the world will beat a path to their door too... They already do. They're called Oracle. :) Derek

To: KLP who wrote (16043)	11/15/2003 1:11:04 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793600

Someday, someone will make a better mousetrap There already is one but the marketing is lacking :) Two of the most popular Web companies, Google and Yahoo!, run on Open Source software. - Google uses a Linux cluster with 10,000 machines. google.com - Yahoo! runs on FreeBSD Unix; Yahoo! Finance is served by the MySQL open source database. mysql.com public.yahoo.com For a peek into the future consider Thailand: Microsoft market share has dropped to 40%, about one million Linux PCs will be sold there this year. #reply-19505066