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To: QwikSand who wrote (110)	5/24/2004 5:01:11 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 197

Yes and no. Once the stuff is on Linux, it should be just as easy to run it on Sun's Opterons as on anything IBM has to offer. JMHO. Charles Tutt (SM)

To: QwikSand who wrote (110)	5/25/2004 9:29:29 PM
From: jonkai	Respond to of 197

--- IBM dangles similar incentives before hundreds of tiny systems integrators who tailor their software to accounting, health care, insurance, retail and other industries. These little guys get extra bonuses from IBM if they push solutions on Linux instead of other platforms. ------- remember when MSFT refused to give IBM windows95 to load on their desktop machines until IBM agreed to knifed the baby OS/2? (which by the way is illegal for MSFT to request, and was ruled that way by the courts).... MSFT was stupid to use it's monopoly against IBM, so now MSFT is losing twice over, not only did they get slapped around in court, now they are getting slapped around by IBM..... as i always ended my long posts describing each MSFT earnings report: it just is really intelligence challenged to make enemies of everyone around you, including your government, and including IBM.... because only win win succeeds eventually in business, and MSFT forgot that back when they hurt IBM's MSFT OS-desktop division permanently back in 1995... now IBM is biting MSFT back in the rear-end.... what goes around, comes back around MSFt...... only children are that stupid to make enemies of powerful players.... like the government, and like IBM.... now MSFT is paying a dear price.... jon.