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

To: Bearded One who wrote (11071)	9/29/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Linux - now Intel stabs Microsoft in the front theregister.co.uk Microsoft has a narrow view of appliances that doesn't help Intel (hinders it, in that most CE platforms aren't Intel), and the whole of the Microsoft-centric network future is dependent on the much-delayed NT 5.0. Meanwhile, alongside the Wintel Grand Plan Intel has a long history of Unix involvement, which is scarcely surprising considering the number of companies running Intel-based Unix servers. Intel's need for OS support for Merced has also led it into alliances with Sun, HP, SCO and various other Unix vendors, and a couple of weeks ago Intel announced it was supporting the Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) initiative, which is designed to produce an industry standard hardware driver interface for different flavours of Unix. Intel's announcement specifically referred to "growing support from the Linux community and its creator, Linus Torvalds," and said an Intel-based reference design would result in UDI-compliant products by the middle of next year - it now seems highly likely that many of these will be machines running Linux. In the past the constraints associated with staying friends with Microsoft probably haven't burdened Intel excessively. Intel's age-old strategy is to do whatever it takes to sell more and more powerful CPUs, and Microsoft's high-bloat OS iterations did a pretty good job of helping this along. It might not be putting it too strong to say that Intel, because it was finding its partner in Wintel too burdensome and restrictive, has decided to invent another. Hello Lintel? ® Best of luck. Lintel ... (REAL) Power to the People