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[jjn@home.nuge.com: [MDLUG] The Gates paperwork...]
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>Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:14:00 -0400 (EDT)
>From: ac224@detroit.freenet.org (Jim Harvey)
>To: mcurtis@iserv.net
>Subject: [jjn@home.nuge.com: [MDLUG] The Gates paperwork...]
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> From: jjn@home.nuge.com (Jay Nugent)
> To: ac224@detroit.freenet.org
> Subject: [MDLUG] The Gates paperwork...
> Date: Mon, 05 Oct
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>
> Greetings,
> Saw this on the Caldera mailing list and thought most of you would get
> a chukle out of it...
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:48:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Paul Wittry <ppw3@premier1.net>
> Reply-To: caldera-users@rim.caldera.com
> To: caldera-users@rim.caldera.com
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> ---Forward of mail from Al Goldstein (al@hadamard.math.washington.edu)---
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>
> Sunday October 4
>
> Gates pushes hometown to Linux
> Linux-based document system costs 10% of Windows NT solution
>
> By Christine Burns - FRAMINGHAM
> It's ironic that in his zeal to equip his new $US53 million home with
> the latest and greatest technology - not to mention every modern
> convenience known to man, woman and child - Microsoft mogul Bill Gates
> drove his hometown into the arms of another operating system.
>
> The official paperwork filed with the city clerk in Medina,
> Washington, (pop. 3,082) concerning the Gates homestead had the city's
> file cabinets bursting at the seams. Of the 10 file cabinets housed in
> the old ferry terminal-turned-town hall set on the shores of Lake
> Washington, four were completely filled with upward of 40,000 pages of
> building permits, blueprints and change work orders all pertaining to
> the Gates estate.
>
> Factoring in future growth and recognising that they physically had no
> more room for storing municipal paperwork, the town fathers had to
> decide on whether to spring for a new town hall or a document
> management system. The latter being the more prudent choice, the town
> looked into NT document management systems that might fit in nicely
> with the town's Microsoft LAN. But what the town came up with was a
> product that runs on Caldera's version of Linux. This product rang in
> at less than 10% of the price of its NT counterparts, says Ray Jones,
> president of Archive Retrieval, a Kirkland, Washington, systems
> integrator. Archive Retrieval last month built and installed the
> city's new document management system, called The Archive.
>
> "When I asked the guys at town hall if they minded that the idle
> screen would display a big Caldera logo, they told me I could point it
> toward the window so everybody walking by could see it," Jones says.
>
> Sorry, Bill. No hometown advantage here.
>
> © Copyright, IDG Communications Ltd, 1998. All rights reserved.
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Mark Curtis mcurtis@iserv.net