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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (956)	2/4/1999 11:15:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

OEM deals would not have to operate. Eventually the Linux dream will need better user code and drivers if it is rise out of the specialist and UNIX server world and take its place in the marketplace that the MS PC has dominated. The realism is that 90% of business and home users cannot handle Linux OS complexity. So if it a high end network machine it can handle the odd bit of proprietary code. Right there. You're assuming a "Windows Everywhere" type of mindset in the PC Unix world, and I think it just doesn't exist. The "Linux dream" isn't to be everyone's self-administered PC desktop GUI client. The realism is that 'handling the OS complexity', is meant for administrators. There are two types of Unix installations. The SysAdmin's installation, and an end user installation which is performed and administered by the SysAdmin. For instance, I previously mentioned my mother-in-law who lives far far far away. She can't handle the complexity of Windows. Once AOL is ported to Linux or Solaris, I'm installing Linux or Solaris on her machine (with getty), and her PC computing experience becomes much more pleasant. I would suggest that 'OS Complexity' = device complexity. The PC/Workstation is a very complex thing. Microsoft's whole gig was to give PC users a certain illusion of being in control of this very complex thing. The curtain has been pulled back on the PC wizard. You mentioned Oracle at the end of your post. Oracle's game plan for the future revolves heavily around replacing local storage and administration and providing data services to simpler devices. If I were Oracle, I *would give away the database. Like Unix, trained mindshare can't ramp up fast enough to meet demand of the changing net centric world. -JCJ