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To: kemble s. matter who wrote (117983)	4/16/1999 9:40:00 AM
From: T.R.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Good Morning Kemble! The headline in yesterday's business section of the Austin American Statesman read "Gates lauds PC giant at trade show." Here are a number of excerpts, unless he said a lot more than was written regarding CPQ it looks like he was much more focused on Linux. Take care! T.R. ================================================================= Gates used his Texas swing to praise Microsoft's relationship with Compaq and to discount the impact of the Linux operating system, which is growing in popularity. Gates praised Compaq far more than Craig Barrett (CEO of INTEL) did on Tuesday and Compaq buys more processors from Intel than anyone else. "There is no partnership more important than the work we do with Compaq" Gates said. Gates downplayed the threat that the Linux operating system presents to Windows. Linux is the free operating system whose popularity has mushroomed during the past two years. Even Dell has invested in a Linux distribution company because, it says, customers are asking for it. Reuter News Service reported Wednesday that Gates told a group of information specialists that users will continue to prefer Windows because it is more homogenous than Linux. "The fact that you don't have a central testing point to control ultimately how to build these things probably means the impact will be fairly limited" Gates said.