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To: Cube who wrote (2753)	4/21/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: David R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

RE: Mark Bracey posted a link to a Microsoft web page talking about their new Linux 98 release Mark posted a joke. Microsoft will not be doing any Linux work anytime soon. You can bet your INPR puts on that.

To: Cube who wrote (2753)	4/21/1999 2:36:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 5102

Industry people saying that the Windows operating system could be history because Linux lets you tweak individually anything you want on your operating system. Well, those who develop and sell complete systems want tweakability but it's not even on the list for corporate users or consumers. The last thing I want to have to do is "tweak" the operating system and do what? Ship the tweaked OS with my software? If Compaq had half a brain they would be all over Linux as the premium server OS. Control over the OS is very attractive to system vendors. The Anything But Microsoft crowd finally has anything and it's several orders of magnitude superior to Windows NT. Oracle saying that their new Linux compatible programming language will make a programmer out of everyone and will be the only programming language needed. They are still teaching algebra and calculus today and it's not any easier or any more difficult now than it was 100 years ago. Writing software is at least analogous if not homologous at some basic level. What they probably have is another electronic form builder. How's it going to help me do statistical analysis or despeckle a scanned image? There is definitely room for a high-level Java that specializes in building business forms and presentations. I assume that's what the folks at Oracle are doing. So what is with Del and his relationship with Oracle? That was the only thing he had going for him in my books. What are the chances that INPR could come up with a Linux anything that might compete? Perhaps jumping on the Java-on-Linux effort early by giving away JBuilder would make them competitive. They would have to sell service packs, components and e-service. The problem is they don't have the knowledge base or support staff or the quality to compete. JBuilder2 was literally worthless in that it crashed everywhere and often. You just don't use tools like that, you whip them across the parking lot at lunch to see how far the CD will fly or use them as coasters. Then you buy a competing product: like Microsoft's highly proprietary but working products.