Re: Linux vs. Windows? (fwd)

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 6,  5:14pm, Adam Williams wrote:
> Subject: Re: Linux vs. Windows? (fwd)
> On Apr 6, 11:18am, root wrote:
> > Subject: Linux vs. Windows? (fwd)
> >
> >
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> >      The next battleground: Linux vs. Windows?
> >      By Mary Jo Foley, Sm@rt Reseller
> >      April 3, 1998 5:58 AM PST
> >
> >      The increasingly vocal freeware community has championed Linux as
> >      a real, viable alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows and NT
> >      for years.
> >
> >      But the lack of a single, large backer has hampered the operating
> >      system's acceptance among many corporate customers, integrators
> >      and resellers.
> >
> >      That dynamic may be changing, however, in large part thanks to
> >      Netscape Communications Corp. (NSCP) Netscape officially joined
> >      the freeware camp as of this week, by putting its Communicator
> >      5.0 source code into the public domain.
> >
> >      Netscape's executive vice president of products Marc Andreessen,
> >      who spoke earlier this week at the Silicon Valley Linux Users
> >      Group meeting, went on record espousing the potential market
> >      benefits of a Communicator plus Linux combination. Andreessen
> >      also reportedly committed to making Linux a reference platform
> >      equal in stature to Windows for future Netscape product releases.
> >
> >      Netscape's move couldn't have come at a better time for the
> >      freeware world. Next week, some of the leading voices in the
> >      freeware movement are slated to hold the first-ever Freeware
> >      Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. Representatives affiliated with
> >      Mozilla.org (the Netscape freeware arm), Apache, Linux, Perl,
> >      Python and Sendmail, among others, are slated to meet to discuss
> >      strategies for increasing public acceptance of their wares at the
> >      conference, which is being hosted by freeware advocates O'Reilly
> >      Associates.
> >
> >      The freeware community is gaining additional backing from some
> >      unlikely places.
> >
 	Amazing isn't it.  Last week (I mean in the course of seven days),  I
 received my copies of Byte, InfoWorld, Internet Week, Information Week, and
 Network World and counted four articles on Linux,  some of them multiple
pages,
 and at least several additional mentions of Linux including two letters to the
 editor.  All the articles were positive, siting lack of tech support as the
 major problem,  although one author noted that it was indeed available.
 	I never expected to see this much coverage.