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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (15942)	1/9/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Is everybody from New Hampshire? www5.zdnet.com For those not up on classic Americana, the reference here is to the license plate state motto, "Live Free or Die". Which, when the old "America's Dairyland" slogan was retired here, got permuted into the (sadly rejected) alternative candidate "Eat cheese or die". Anyway, in this column, the freedom being worried about isn't Microsoft's freedom to rule the world, or "Be all that they can be", as they'd say in the Army ads. Despite all the admittedly good things about NT, some people simply won't have it in their shop. These honorary New Hampshirites would rather die than use NT. Note that the same antipathy doesn't extend to Windows 95. People reserve a separate stream of invective for Win 95, but they also use it, however grudgingly, on many desktops. Why does NT seem to embody all that's objectionable in Microsoft's public image? Whatever it is, the over-my-dead-body crowd is thriving. They seem to fit several profiles: small companies big enough to have a dedicated person or two in charge of IS, medium-size companies with a technological bent, and large companies with diverse computing platforms. Man, I was just starting to like NT. I haven't been running long enough to say it won't fall apart eventually, like Windows95 always seems to do for me, but so far I haven't any seen the seconds- long hourglass hangs that seem to be with me almost from the with Win95. We'll see. The Web, of course, has given the anti-Microsoft factions tacit permission to move outside the fold, since Unix remains firmly entrenched as the operating system of choice for Web servers. NT might be a good OS for Notes servers, but knowledgeable Webmasters prefer Unix. Now, there's a PR slogan for you. Cheers, Dan.