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To: LK2 who wrote (1222)	11/13/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

Re: OS Share Here's a piece of data I've known about and now I have a reference. computershopper.zdnet.com According to a recent IDC survey of 556 IT people representing small, medium, and large organizations, the number-one operating system reported in use through the end of 1997 was Windows 3.1...

To: LK2 who wrote (1222)	11/13/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	Respond to of 2025

Tape this on your cube and pray to it 3 times a day: ------------------------------------ "Microsoft's most important business is the file system, so we need to build a database file system that preserves the interfaces of Microsoft's file system and ease of use but yields all the benefits of a database, like searching and sharing documents," Ellison argues. ------------------------------------ Is there still anyone wondering why Microsoft goes through all the pains to protect integration of Internet Explorer into Windows? The answer is above. File system is DEAD. Of course, it's gonna be there like HDD tracks and sectors are there. But you won't see it. It will be hidden by IE2000 or Oracle2001. And it's about time. Believe it or not, we discussed this in research context a year or two ago, though there's some research done on these ideas for the last two decades. Not many investment opportunities though - it's the MSFT, Unix (Linux? Solaris?) and Oracle slugfest. Jurgis

To: LK2 who wrote (1222)	11/27/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

Larry, <<Windows on the wane? Open source and information appliances squeeze the PC from both sides.>> This guy sings my long term song.--"An ad campaign for one new entrant in this market, Hewlett-Packard's Jornada "handheld PC," contrasts a long list of dozens of examples of "what a laptop can do" ("Put together a 3-D animated short film ... Assist with scientific visualization ... author virtual reality ...") with "what you really do: Get e-mail. Send e-mail. Search the Net. Prepare memos. Check appointments and contacts." End of list." salonmagazine.com Yogi