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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (10228)	8/22/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 74651

NASA and Sandia National Labs are hobbyists? Supercomputers are designed by hobbyists? Maybe you should lay off the sauce. They may not be hobbyists, but they have the same profile as hobbyists. Technically very sophisticated (moreso then 99%+ of the general population), having the ability and desire to modify and recompile the OS, self-reliant, etc. Initial cost isn't the big issue. Life cycle cost is. What is your time worth if your computer is "down"? Your business? I've been programming on Windows NT for 4 years. It's very stable. I don't know whether NT is good enough for "mission critical" apps - that's not my area of expertise so I can't comment. I only know that it works great for me. Gates is shaking in his Birkenstocks. Paul Allen is punching out of his MSFT stock. You should too. Thanks for the advice, but I think I'll hold.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (10228)	8/22/1998 3:56:00 PM
From: ed	Respond to of 74651

Don't worry about it!! There will be a new product called SmartNet, which will cruise in the network all the time in real time to detect any problem within the net and automatically fix it.To say it in another word, Use the software to detect any software or hardware problems and automatically fix it. We do not need human being to be involved in the maintenance of the net anymore . Good Luck !!!!

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (10228)	8/22/1998 7:42:00 PM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik	Respond to of 74651

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. But if "business" is really that conscious about these issues, then why isn't this discussion taking place on the AAPL board? And as for the home market, "Yes, but can you run Diablo on it?" Linux strikes me as the Libertarian Party of OSes. A great idea, but out there among the vast populace, a depressingly small percentage even realize it exists.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (10228)	8/23/1998 1:31:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hey, even I don't believe Linux is going to replace Windows 95/98 anytime soon on the desktop. We're in a Windows world for the desktop for at least 5 years, maybe more. Unless Linux proponents pay for the retraining of tens of millions of workers, or figure out how to run Microsoft Word and Excel on Linux, people will continue to buy Windows computers for much of their work. Whether or not Microsoft makes gains into other markets, like the server, enterprise, handheld, pure internet surfing, or embedded markets on the other hand, is the real story. Linux has a real chance to blunt Microsoft in some of these markets. But the knowledge worker on the desktop? Performance and reliability isn't the issue-- running Microsoft office applications is the issue.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (10228)	8/23/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: J Krnjeu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Mr. Rusty Johnson , <<NASA and Sandia National Labs are hobbyists? Supercomputers are designed by hobbyists?>> Please, NASA and Sandia National Labs are natural for Linux because all they have ever ran is Unix. BP, Kellogo, and other major business are not NASA. NASA is scientific, BP is business. Their is a big differences between the two. It's taken 25-30 years for Unix to have an impact on business and it still doesn't have the majority position in OS. Business is not going risk their job on some free software. There is a long way to go. Business is looking for some OS that can do what they need and is easy to administer not something because it's free. Thank You JK