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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23014)	3/21/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, Is a URL to that article available in one of the past messages? I am trying to piece together what the "new MS architecture" actually looks like. I read the only available white paper on DNA and its just the usual MS marketing hash. I also searched the web for a while but can't really come up with anything meaty. Do you know of any sizable DNA initiatives that are actually going on. And, is there any analysis (known to you) as to how this whole mess fits together in Windows 2000 and whatever else Microsoft has announced lately? I am starting to have some difficulty figuring out what these guys are actually doing (on the technical side that is). Thure

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23014)	3/21/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, Sorry to use you as a pointer all the time, but did you check this out on CNET yet? --------------------------------------------- Dell preinstalling Linux on workstations By Michael Kanellos and Stephen Shankland Staff Writers, CNET News.com March 19, 1999, 11:55 a.m. PT Dell Computer began offering Red Hat Linux as a preinstalled option on its workstations today, the latest example of the growing popularity of the little OS that could. Dell began offering Red Hat this morning as an option on its Precision 410 and 610 workstations through its Web site. Linux costs an extra $20 over the price of a similarly configured Windows NT machine, and it comes with 90 days of phone or email technical support from LinuxCare. The new systems also mark the first time in years that Dell is selling a non-Microsoft desktop. The upstart operating system is taking the computing world by storm as big computer companies continue to beef up their support for the "open source" effort. Although Dell announced that it would begin to sell Red Hat's OS on its workstations and servers earlier this year, the way that Dell is promoting Red Hat on its site seems to go beyond the earlier commitments. In January, Dell said that it would devise optimized configurations of workstations and servers for Red Hat Linux and sell customers copies of the OS on request. In other words, Linux was not preinstalled without a customer request. ------------------- Another small break in the dike. Even though charging $20 more than NT for a free operating system is ludicrous, greedy (since they contributed nothing to Linux) and shows how much fear is still in the air. Thure

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23014)	3/21/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Hey guys, Now that the AOL/NSCP deal has closed, I'd like to go back to the same old question... what the heck did AOL buy for what was finally valued at $10 billion??? -Many Netscape employees (engineers or otherwise) have or will leave due to attrition or layoffs (and note that those repriced options from yesteryear vest on April 15). -Netscape enterprise software is slowly being handed to Sun. -Netscape client software is open source, so AOL could have taken it free. -Netscape Netcenter really isn't that popular (and in fact I'm very suspect about Media Metrix numbers, especially their Work figures). And if AOL wanted a portal, Excite and Lycos would have been both better and cheaper. What else? AOL-tv? Did they need Netscape to pull that off? If anyone has some thoughts here I'd appreciate them. Thanks. -Sal Media Metrix must install software on user machines (their "panel") which takes data--how many and how representative are corporations who let Media Metrix do this? There are also issues with non-representative panels; for example, they get little or no data from newer internet users. Of course, Media Metrix's bad data is spread to all website, so atleast that data has some relativistic context.