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Hilary Gay <hilary@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote 
on Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:32:49 +0000:

>> From what I've seen, compared to Windows, Linux is 5 times the effort. But
>> worth it for most things, sadly it takes time for a lot of siftware to be
>> ported to it and unless things change then this will be it's undoing, it'll
>> go the same way as OS/2 and Betamax.
>
>People have been saying that for years.  And strangely enough, this year
>has been so good for Linux that MS is getting worried.  (You did know that
>after the "Hotmail hacked" fiasco, they started hosting it on UNIX instead
>of MS products?  Says a lot for the standard.)

Since it's increased it's "Market Share" every year since it was
"invented", is entirely compatible with Unix and already exceeds
Microsoft in the web server stakes I don't think Linux will disappearing
into oblivion sometime soon.

I also caught sight of the World Bobsligh Tour! It's being sponsored very
heavily by Corel Linux. If someone like Corel is prepared to throw money
like that at it I think Microsoft are in for some definite competition.
Also Sun are producing their own linux and already port some of their own
software to it, IBM are interested and even Intel are talking about
developing chips to work especially with linux on some specific products. 

Interesting times. Of course some people will never be educated and
they'll be free to use the so called "easy to use" but "impossible to keep
stable" operating systems of their choice.

-- 
Richard Watson
rwatson@pwdltd.co.uk
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