Incoming from Paul Johnson: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:15:42PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > That's even weirder. Linux takes corporate computing by storm. How? > > By abandoning the low end server market to Mickeysoft and going for ......................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > the desktop market instead. > > IBM isn't abandoning the server market to anybody. That's their > mainstay. Just curious, but where did you get this idea? IBM is
HTH. Leaving Mickeysoft to duke it out with *nix in the _low end server_ market, when few if any of the desktops will need anything but connectivity from those servers, seems a just fate for an outfit that produces such bad software. > > Maybe Microsoft would do well to start porting its software over now. > > I'm not sure that beast deserves to continue existing after the Based on past performance, I'm surprised they exist now. I was just trying to be diplomatic. Even the worst tyrant deserves a last meal and parting words before he's hung up on a meat hook. A MacDonald's Happy Meal seems apropos. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
