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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19449)	5/19/1998 3:53:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

"Such as the market declared defacto word processing file format .doc, the market declared defacto spreadsheet file format .xls, or the market declared defacto presentation file format .ppt? " Reginald, You really are a clown. Microsoft can't even make their own formats compatible from release to release. You call that a standard? As to the use of "standard", normally I think of it in a more technical sense (although I agree its a pretty loose term). One of the key things about standards is that they get published are internally consistent and don't change at the whim of a particular manufacturer. By that definition Windows is not a standard and a protocol like IP or a 5 penny nail is. As to windows being a standard in your sense; sure, Windows owns the desktop, its a monopoly and because of that according to you a standard. At least we agree about the monopoly part. Thure

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19449)	5/19/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Norman Hwu	Respond to of 24154

Reg : I think you do not understand what is file format. <I am asking for LOW LEVEL standards like file formats.> >Such as the market declared defacto word processing file format >.doc, the market declared defacto spreadsheet file format .xls, or >the market declared defacto presentation file format .ppt? doc, xls and ppt are just a trunk of bytes. Hope you know what is FAT, NTFS, PE and NE ... Sometime it is hard to ask people to tell the difference between a cow and a pig.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19449)	5/19/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: Dermot Burke	Respond to of 24154

Reggie you are up on the New york financial worlds data management preferences right? zdnet.com "..I talked to the chief financial officer at a bank in New York, and he said they weren't using Linux. They didn't want to run the bank on unsupported software," recalls Dan Kuznetsky, director of operating system research at International Data Corp. "Then I talked to the IS staff, and they said they had 100 servers running Linux..." Mr. B I hope Mr. B won't mind my posing his work again.