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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:22:42 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903030813160.61088-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <39909.920444937@zippy.cdrom.com>

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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > http://www.ibm.com/news/1999/03/02.phtml
> 
> While I'm not denying IBM's residual importance in the marketplace
> (and that's still pretty darn big), I hardly see this as having
> "lost" anything at all.

Alot of companies tend to still prefer the "commericial server vendors",
which, other then Gateway, are all moving towards Linux recogniztion or
direct support...

IBM and Compaq are two the of the large ones that are shipping with Linux
Oracle, a predominate server market, is shipping for Linux
Intel just jumped behind Linux through VAResearch
	- Slashdot -> VA Going Bigtime article

How does one work at curbing this trend?  How do we become more visible?

For my part, once Applixware is released, I'm going to pick up a copy of
it...add my voice of one to sales, hopefully to help show that there is a
market for stuff like that, but that's one voice :(

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 



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