Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:38:12 12/07/97
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On December 07, 1997 at 10:53:06, Amir Ban wrote: >On December 07, 1997 at 10:24:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> Now linux is making huge >>inroads with several hundred thousand users around the world. > >I have nothing against linux (there's a newspaper clipping on the >bulletin board near me titled "Whoever doesn't like linux, stand up !"), >but you should really append such statements with a :) > >Reminds me of when I signed up to the Win95 beta program, and got into >an argument with a Microsoft exec about what looked like uncooperative >behavior on their side. He shrugged and said: "We have 750,000 beta >testers, and that's more than the entire Sun installed base." > >Amir The thing that is waking up people around me is that as I review NSF (and other) proposals, I am seeing a really large number of requests for PC's with the plan of running Linux on 'em. In years past, this was not done because Linux was considered a "hobbiest toy"... but many folks are just like me now, using this in a production facility and having good results. IE we have a linux news server that hasn't crashed in a couple of years. We have a big linux file server for home directories that runs rock-solid as well. As the saying goes, "Win95 goes down as often as a three-dollar hooker." :)
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