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

To: J Krnjeu who wrote (11159)	10/8/1998 12:59:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 74651

Red Hat 207 units Windows98 8180 units. That is the entire year for Red Hat and 3 months for Windows 98. Sales clerks have said Red Hat is a non factor and everything is Windows 98. This doesn't count all the pre-installed copies of Windows on each computer sold, which would more than make up for the fact that Red Hat is available for free as a download and for minimal (a couple of bucks) charge on CD with no printed docs mail order. A few days ago I installed Red Hat Linux 5.1 on my "junk" fourth PC: AMD 586 drop-in 486 replacement, 425 meg IDE HD, 32 meg DRAM, S3 DX/VX/blah/blah video card, and old Sound Blaster with proprietary 2x CD attached. Haven't done anything with it as I'm a moderate-level Unix user but I don't know anything about Unix sysadmining so I'm still reading the documentation at the Red Hat site. I got my copy burned on a CD from a friend who spent (literally) a couple of days downloading it over a 28.8 modem.