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To: DownSouth who wrote (20053)	4/8/1999 11:59:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 74651

LB, MSFT haters tend to be techies who understand the technical flaws of MSFT OS software. This is the same flawed reasoning that kept my out of AOL for several years (sob!). AOL is for newbies, I thought disdainfully. Why should I buy stock in a company whose product I would never use? Fortunately I abandoned that line of thinking about five weeks ago and am now up over 75% on the small AOL purchase I made at that time.

To: DownSouth who wrote (20053)	4/8/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

What they fail to understand is that selecting an OS is not done in a closet. Exactly. And that's why NT (under whatever odd name is used) will continue to gain and to lose some customers. It's clearly a good system for small business and for departmental servers. It seems to be gaining acceptance in enterprise situations. But it will never be everything to everyone because it tries to be everything to everyone. As NT grows in the market, we'll continue to see stories about the folks who switched. But as Linux continues its extraordinary growth rates (much higher rates but lower absolute numbers than NT), we'll see real stories like this one about an NT customer that switched to Linux: news.com Salon says it made the move from NT to a customized version of the Red Hat 5.2 distribution of Linux "in order to support Salon.com's growing needs." "For a growing company like Salon, Linux is the best of all worlds," Chad Dickerson, Salon's vice president of technology, said in a statement. "It's a proven technology, it's low cost and high performance, and it's broadly supported. The robustness and stability of the Linux operating system make it ideal for mission-critical applications."