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To: Marc Newman who wrote (23527)	3/16/1999 3:30:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

SEC may bar selective disclosure to analysts. quote.bloomberg.com Maybe then they'll actually have to do some real analysis.

To: Marc Newman who wrote (23527)	3/16/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 213176

Linux is now between AAPL cool and Deep Blue cool Mr Perens in Marc's Wired article overlooks the existing broad server base for PowerPCs (S/390, RS/6000, AS/400) and IBM's role . IBM is providing funding for Red Hat to distribute Linux and writing AIX drivers . Looks like AAPL is writing drivers also: " Steve Jobs, interim CEO of Apple, and Eric Raymond, champion of the open-source software movement, will announce that Apple will make its new MacOSX server product compliant with the tenets of the open-source software movement, sources said. Apple will open up the bottom part of its operating system, like the device drivers, while keeping the top half of the OS proprietary, including the graphical user interface. "It looks like Apple is trying to get Linux developers onto their hardware," said Bruce Perens, an open-source software developer, formerly of Jobs' Pixar. "While there has been a Power PC Linux, Linux has been predominately a PC project." Perens said that Jobs has opined in the past that there have only ever been three really good desktops: Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and the NeXT OS, from Jobs' former company. Having 2 out of 3 "best" OSs is not a bad benefit as a AAPL shareholder and it looks like Linux may soon be the 4th. Jim K.