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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (108445)	3/9/1999 8:50:00 AM
From: BGR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Rusty, After CPQ bought DEC my concern was that DELL remained the only major enterprises player with no Unix offering (IBM has AIX, CPQ-DEC has OSF1 and HP has HP-UX). I agree with Greg's view of future computing with all powerful servers. Even in small shops I expect servers to be used on a regular basis and NT5 (if and when it materializes) may not be powerful enough. (Not to mention that servers are good business for the seller.) In that case, vendors with an alternative Unix offer has an advantage. From that POV, the fact that DELL is going the Linux path is very good news. I find Linux to be a superb operating system which has already found significant production use. However, the IBM deal may mean that DELL can license AIX as well. But AIX has not been that popular compared to Solaris for example and Linux of course is much cheaper to resell. -BGR.