Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital darkroom
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:28:16 -0500

At 01:59 PM 9/12/99 +0000, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>SGI is not walking away from their desktop series.  They are
>dropping NT in favor of Linux.

Now THAT'S stupid, considering that non-Mac graphics houses invariable use 
NT. And BeOS is making a bid for that market segment. And they go with 
Linux? For Oracle, and IBM, I can see it. SGI? Something's fishy here.

On the other hand, they may be looking at the long-term future and seeing 
where the anti-Microsoft movement is leading? Hmmm......

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

I don't get no respect. I called a suicide prevention line and they tried 
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