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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dumbmoney who wrote (10227)	8/22/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 74651

Time will tell. Linux not only CAN replace commercial operating systems ... it IS. As we "speak". Get used to it. NASA and Sandia National Labs are hobbyists? Supercomputers are designed by hobbyists? Maybe you should lay off the sauce. Anyone that uses Windows will be right at home with XFree86 or any Common Desktop Environment. Check out the "screenshots" at: kde.org Business is waking up to the fact that Microsoft products aren't very good and aren't very cheap. $100 upgrades for bug fixes aren't cheap. Hiring IT professionals to keep Windows NT "up" and running isn't cheap. My brother makes $60 per hour. That's "practically free"? The masses will use the products at home that they get paid to learn at work. Initial cost isn't the big issue. Life cycle cost is. What is your time worth if your computer is "down"? Your business? The bigger issue is that Linux is robust ... bombproof. Windows isn't. Period. Once you are spoiled by this fact, you can't go back to mediocrity. Gates is shaking in his Birkenstocks. Paul Allen is punching out of his MSFT stock. You should too. The game isn't over. It's the top of the first inning. Open architecture wins. Proprietary loses. Dumbmoney, the smartmoney guys like Milk are on the Linux thread posting articles like this: cnn.com "There's no doubt that the Linux train is rolling full-steam ahead: Recent announcements of large software developers that are porting their products to Linux and positive discussions in such publications as Forbes and The Economist have added momentum. The impetus is giving some supporters a reason to believe Linux could overtake Windows NT as the operating system of choice in the next few years." Best of luck.