In a message dated 11/3/03 6:45:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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> This, too, is outdated. Just have a look at support money flowing in from
> HP-UX or Linux or Windows. And you clearly see it's not enough to sustain
> the model. It seems that R&D, these days, can only be sustained by sales,
> sales and more sales.
>

Now that comment also deserves another comment...  or two....

a) Linux is eating away at HP-UX and other Unix versions' market share.  Very
very bad for the future of the Unix dialects like HP-UX.  Might be why
Solaris is now very very cheap??  Is that Sun's Linux antidote?

b) Linux is essentially free.  I suspect that eventually Linux will evolve
into a more product oriented OS that has real price tags.  Otherwise Linux will
continue to tag along after Windows being 'funded' if you can use that word
regarding Linux by essentially volunteer efforts.

c) Bill Gates is NOT dumb!  M$ doesn't really do support like HP did with
MPE.  If you are running Windows 2000 Server and want to update to Windows
2003... you get to buy a new license!!!!  for a 'new' product.  M$ has billions of $
to spend on whatever they feel like doing.  Look forward to more 'new'
Windows products.  Note that unlike almost all other OS vendors, M$ is almost
exclusively a software company.  HP, IBM, and other primarily hardware vendors
continue to focus on hardware sales.  Just watch HP and IBM brag amount their
'Linux' business not any product that they truly control such as HP-UX, AIX or MPE.
 Think about just how easy it is to run Linux on a Dell box... hardware is
just a commodity now that continues to get cheaper.  The OS is what
differentiates one computer system from another.

Wayne

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