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To: James Chun who wrote (15226)	4/6/1999 3:16:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

Could close down at this rate. --QS

To: James Chun who wrote (15226)	4/6/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 64865

Dell is backing LINUX and sold 1250 PC which would otherwise been SUN turf. In a further endorsement of Linux, Dell said it had signed up a new corporate customer -- clothing retailer Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp. (NYSE:BCF - news) -- to buy 1,250 desktop PCs running Linux as its operating system software. Burlington said its 264 stores would manage their day-to-day retail business on Dell desktop PCs customized to run Linux software. Mike Prince, Burlington's chief technology officer, said he had gone shopping for a Unix system and found that a personal computer company -- Dell -- now offered Linux. That broadened his choices beyond such traditional vendors as Sun Microsystems Inc.(Nasdaq:SUNW - news) and Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (Nasdaq:SCOC - news) ''Linux is rock solid,'' Prince said. ''It has a tremendous amount of mind share. It is unifying Unix in a way that it has never been before.'' The deal is one of the largest examples to date of how Linux is finding wider acceptance on desktop computers. Haim