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

To: ed who wrote (16745)	2/23/1999 5:40:00 AM
From: Byron Xiao	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

What the hell is this? Paul Allen is the founder of Linux? So Paul Allen has a lot of money, but he sure can't change the history. Linux was developed by Linus Tovalds after he worked on Minix in a project. Will Linux cut the air supply of SUNW? I don't know, I seriously doubt it though. SUNW is still pratically a hardware company. It makes money by selling servers. It does not make money selling Solaris. Solaris comes with the hardware. Linux is developed for Intel x86 lines of processors, and that's not SUNW's market. If you want to run UNIX on sun's machine, you are telling me that running Linux is better than running Sun's Solaris? I don't get that, since Solaris comes free with the hardware. Now, you can make an argument that x86 based servers running Linux might eat away SUN's share, but MSFT is also competeting in this arena. How does Linux help MSFT? If I am using SUN's hardware, I sure as hell will use SUN's software, since they are free. If I am running a WEB server, my choice would be Linux, since it's free and reliable. How does that benefit NT or MSFT? You failed again, ed. And don't forget, there is a x86 based version of Solaris. Your's truely is posting this message from a Solaris x86 system and it hasn't crashed on me since god knows when. By the way, I obtained the Solaris x86 free for academic usage. I don't have a preference one way or the other between Linux or Solaris, since their programming API is pretty much the same. Solaris runs Java application better though. So that's why I am using Solaris instead of Linux. As toLinux, I have said long ago it will be a threat more to Sunw than to MSFT, that is why Sunw wants to adapt Linux before it grows too big. I think you still remember Paul Allen is the founder of Linux, he will Linux to cut the air supply of SUNW