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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:57:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.sa.enteract.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        stox@enteract.com, Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904191054170.11472-100000@m4.stox.sa.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <371BF56D.9BD68BD8@softweyr.com>

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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wes Peters wrote:

> "Kenneth P. Stox" wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Alex Belits wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> > >
> > > > Look is more like HP surrendered to Microsoft
> > >
> > >   Rick Belluzo sabotaged HP and is finishing SGI now.
> > 
> > Well, I wouldn't be so fast to attack Rick Belluzo. I just saw his keynote
> > at COMDEX this evening, and among other things he did announce SGI's
> > support of LINUX, and the intent of SGI to donate technology to the Open
> > Software Community. So far, I have not seen any other big vendor announce
> > the same intent to do so.
> 
> Sun?  IBM?  Intel?
> 
> Oh that's right, they're all too small to count.  But they did beat
> SGI to the punch on the Linux thing.

Well, I'm not so sure about that. What technology has Sun, IBM, or Intel
agreed to to donate to Linux right now ? I know Sun has made Java open,
but have they donated any technology directly to the O/S ?

-Ken Stox
 stox@fnal.gov



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