Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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. and Eric Welch wrote: >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. > Don't worry Eric - its NOT stupid. They only use NT because there has not been anything else for the IT person to use since other flavors of Windows are too lame. >On the other hand, they may be looking at the long-term future and seeing >where the anti-Microsoft movement is leading? Hmmm...... Now you're on track - and they might actually learn about unix based stuff and be able to use that knowledge more than 6 months out Henry Ambrose