Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (1311)	4/15/1999 12:16:00 AM
From: Gary L. Kepler	Respond to of 54805

Linux - I'm not an expert but I think PCWeek has indicated that Oracle, Informix, Sybase are porting applications to Linux with IBM and HP also very interested. It is clearly ramping up to be a force. Hardware vendors want to establish an independence from Mr Softie and Linux may be a viable future option in addition to Java and Jini.

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (1311)	4/19/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: zx	Respond to of 54805

Comdex Tech Show Features 'Goliath' Gates vs Linux's 'David' Chicago, April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates will open the Comdex computer trade show Monday in Chicago in what some call a ''David vs. Goliath'' confrontation between Gates's ubiquitous Windows computer operating system and the upstart Linux software that's gaining converts. The Comdex/Spring, Windows World show is expected to draw about 80,000 people and 500 companies and exhibitors to the lakefront's McCormick Place convention center. Special pavilions will address the Year 2000 computer problem, Microsoft's new Windows 2000 operating system, Linux software, as well as products in mobile computing and wireless telecommunications. The high point of the four-day show may be the first two hours, when Gates unveils the final test version of Windows 2000 before an audience of about 4,000. Later that morning, the developer of Linux, Linus Torvalds, will hold court with his growing legion of believers. ''This is a David and Goliath story, a battle of the operating systems,'' said Bob Bierman, general manager for the show. Linux, developed in 1991 by Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, is considered a more stable version of the older Unix computer operating systems. It has 10 million users and accounted for more than 17 percent of all computer server operating system shipments last year, according to researcher International Data Corp. Threat In an internal memo in November, Microsoft described Linux, the fastest growing operating system last year, as posing a ''significant'' revenue threat to its Windows NT system, which runs high-speed corporate computers. Bierman said there are no plans for Gates and Torvalds to meet. But ''Oh man, with all the noise and the buzz about Linux, that would be something,'' he said.