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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (22082)	5/5/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 74651

Believe it or not Rust, Linux is more of a threat to SUNW and the other proprietary iron UNIX vendors. It's free, it's UNIX, and scales quite nicely on 4-8 way CPU boxes, and is perfect for file, print, web and database services. Linux is still a couple of years away from having a front-end that is as user friendly as 98/NT.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (22082)	5/5/1999 12:50:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Rusty, re: porting its Unix rendering application would have been a huge chore, Forsyth said. The application is about 2 million lines of code and might have taken years to rewrite for Windows, he said. "We thought about that for three nanoseconds." I'm all for linux, everyone I know loves it but just remember this applies to the software companies too. Before NT we had to port to 40+ unix variants: sunos, irix, dynix, hpux, .... and now linux. For those that don't know for example porting a database requires knowledge of the OS kernel lock manager, which interfaces with the dbms latcher, the point being, OS internals R&D is required, and needs to be maintained for the life of your core product. Software companies are not willing to do this anymore. These unix vendors better standardize on one unix variant. Lets see if they are grown up enough to pull it off, they weren't last time, which is why McNealy's whining falls on deaf ears at times and even Oracle jumped onto NT so quickly (even though we all know Larry hates BG).