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From: Roy Hendrickzon <Webmaster@headbooks.com>
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
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vss@shell2.ba.best.com wrote:
> 
> With my last 1 year experience with NT, i am completely pissed off.
> 
> IMHO, NT is a badly designed bull shit.
Man I have win 95/ linux /NT 4.blow

linux has been up 24 hours a day for a long time

the M$ boxes need rebooting every few hours.

ALSO NT BLEW-UP my whole file system!!!!

and to think i actually paid for it..

I was robbed

> 
> Now i am more than ever convinced on the future of Unix.
> 
> I predict   INTEL would be the hardware standard.
> And Linux/FreeBsd would be the software standard.
> 
> Now my question is:
> If that is the way the world goes, What are all the companies who would
> be benefited by the raise of Linux/FreeBsd as software standard.
> 
> thanks,
> -vs senthilkumar
> 
>        Let's not predict the future by looking into rear view mirror.