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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Highway Jim who wrote (22745)	5/16/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 74651

Linux is the IBM OS2 that never made it. Not exactly. IBM marketed (for a better word) OS/2 for the desktop user and when they released OS/2 Warp in 1994 they were very serious about gaining ground in that market. OS/2 ran Windows 3.1 apps and was quite (and certainly still is with 4.0) a good OS, very stable and mature but always lacking in driver support. Initially IBM sold over five million copies of Warp but since then its main support is from diehard OS/2 fanatics, which there are still quite a few. Linux on the other hand has never been marketed for the desktop user (although it is appearing in computer stores) but caught on with the web server world where it is doing tremendously well. Linux may never penetrate Microsoft's death grip on the desktop but it certainly is a very good product and "improving" all the time.