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To: JRH who wrote (18540)	10/29/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 77397

OT OT Linux One cannot buy a box from a retail store, but they are available over the internet. I saw two boxes at CompUSA. One from Red Hat with Linux with bundled utilities and another from Corel with Word Perfect, Spreadsheet, and Data base. tp

To: JRH who wrote (18540)	10/29/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: George L. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77397

Let's take this one step at a time. >> You are correct in respect to the lack of applications, but I think that as more people migrate to Linux, the more (and better) apps will become more available.<< Do you have numbers to back this up? My take on it is that Linux is a small niche group and will always be that way. The only way that they could possibly break out of that niche would be to get into a few corporate markets and build from there. This is no different than OS/2. A better product with no chance of making much mark in market share. >> One cannot buy a box from a retail store, but they are available over the internet. And since the PC sales business model seems to be moving to Linux (i.e. DELL), why would they wanna be in a retail store? But I will credit you the fact that it is not a MSFT killer for the home (yet), but it is young and has lots of programmers out there. << Again I doubt this statement from a substantive standpoint. Lots of programmers could be considered thousands, whereas there are millions of programmers ( or wannabees <g>) for Wintel platforms. As a former software development director, I had virtually no demand for my applications to be done in Linux. None! George