Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Oct 1998 21:17:25 +0000 | From | Sid Boyce <> | Subject | RE: Let's Hear it for Linux: ? Yawn |
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http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=36147d2c0 refers:
Amazingly I couldn't raise a Yawn,a hearty laugh was all I could muster. I know it would be foolish to have bet on little David against the mighty Goliath and most bets would "safely go on Goliath", very reasonable, we'd all say. To liken Linux to OS/2 and Mac, you are saying the little guy always loses. Most of us came from DOS/WINDOWS, so we know the difference between an operating system that delivers constantly and one that does only on your lucky day. The Blue Screen of Death and such happy occurrences are behind us now, but we still have vivid memories of those traumatic occasions, sometimes we see them quite often and they make for a good laugh. I know Corporate buyers will always go with the crowd, but they have a nasty habit of demanding security and reliability, also their patience is not endless, so when cracks appear in the dam, a flood is heralded. Personal users are by and large quite computer illiterate, so they will more often sacrifice solidity for whatever comes second, but even there, people are asking questions and looking for something better.
Another laugh, seeing figures of IE against Netscape, most people I know prefer Netscape, but they all have PC's with Windows and IE, hell, they can't buy anything else, it's there whether they want it or not, the dealers having been offered a deal they COULDN'T refuse.. Microsoft's sales are as large as they are simply because every PC shipped is forced to have it installed, but it doesn't mean there are an equivalent number of happy users. Linux will do well, even an article such as yours which offers such cogent arguments as to why it should be shunned, generates further interest from others who would probably only have vaguely heard the word Linux mentioned. Every negative article has had precisely that effect, so keep them coming. I would wager that your article around the same date in 3 years time will probably have the same general thread running through it, but significantly changed in substance, I'm hugely looking forward to it --- SMILE ---. How about a regular LINUX column here ????? Regards -- ... Sid Boyce...Amdahl(Europe)...44-121 422 0375 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corporation.
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