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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1432)	4/14/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: Arnold Layne	Respond to of 2615

Gates calls Linux impact 'fairly limited' Microsoft boss says he takes the alternative OS seriously, but plays down its commercial potential. By Reuters April 14, 1999 12:23 PM PT HOUSTON, Texas -- Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday he foresaw only a limited role for Linux, the open-source operating system seen by some as a threat to Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system. 'The fact that you don't have a central testing point to control ultimately how to build these things probably means that the impact will be fairly limited.' -- Bill Gates on Linux Addressing an audience of information technology professionals in Houston, Gates said there was clearly a market for free software but this was mainly confined to relatively simple applications such as word processing and spreadsheets. << ie. Like Los Alamos' 100 Processor Beowulf Clusters? >> << ie. Perhaps Bill thinks you need Multiprocesors to Run Word Processors & Spreadsheets Like WORD & EXCEL.. >> "Today the browsers have gotten rich enough that it's not the kind of software that you can develop and test in a university-type of environment," he said. << ie. The MSFT Redmond Campus. >> "The fact that you don't have a central testing point to control ultimately how to build these things probably means that the impact will be fairly limited,'' Gates said. << ie. Limited To Areas Outside The MSFT Corporate Campus. >>

To: JC Jaros who wrote (1432)	4/14/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

Fresh out of the Remond Borgmeister. biz.yahoo.com After reading these statements of MR. Borgy, I'm convinced he no longer has a clue. Gates said there was clearly a market for free software but this was mainly confined to relatively simple applications such as word processing and spreadsheets. ME....Wow he believes this. The Microsoft chairman noted, for example, that early Internet browsers had been distributed for free, but said that modern browsers were far more sophisticated and could no longer be developed in a noncommercial environment. ME...And as we all know a browser is much more sophisticated than Linux. ''Today the browsers have gotten rich enough that it's not the kind of software that you can develop and test in a university-type of environment,'' he said. ME...Yes all universities are dumping NT for Linux. Gates said Microsoft took Linux seriously but felt that most customers would continue to favor Windows because it was a more homogenous product than Linux, development of which is in the hands of a diffuse band of programmers. ME....homogenous? see next ME. Gates said, for example, that there were five different windowing systems that run on Linux. ME...There are six different borg systems and they are all mostly incompatible. (3.11 nt3.51 nt4.0 win95,97,98 ) ''The fact that you don't have a central testing point to control ultimately how to build these things probably means that the impact will be fairly limited,'' Gates said. ME...yeah all that great testing give ya real suckurity as melissa has toyed with borgy. ''People really do want something that's been tested against all the different applications, so that they know exactly what is out there,'' he said. ME...Yes after extensive testing I believe that any IT person recommending NT to server anything is incompetent to the point of criminal negligence Tom Watson tosiwmee