A strong opinionated colleague of mine said the following:
> > RedHat have revenues of $10m -- and are capitalized on the NASDAQ
> > at -- ready for this -- $20 billion -- they're worth one fifth of
> > what Gates is worth.
> >
> > These guys should stop bleating and start demanding that RedHat
> > recycle some of their ill-gotten gains.
I think he's got a good point though...
Mr A. Nony. Mouse
> I was actually trying to make a reference to the fact that I have
> not yet seen a mention of Red Hat in our discussions of who should
> be driving Java on Linux. Why is that?
>
> Jim
>
>
> Tony Dean wrote:
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > There is such an organization. Its called the Opensource movement. You
> > only
> > have to look as far as Linux to see the potential. Linux is more
> > stable and generally
> > performs better than Win NT and there is plenty of resources behind
> > NT. look at Perl and
> > gcc/g++ to see what can happen. The Opensource movement has more
> > resources behind
> > it than even the giants like IBM and AT&T.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > > ...
> > > > But there's an awful lot of evidence that
> > > > mounting a serious Java environment effort is not really possible
> > > > without the financial resources to feed and clothe a small army of
> > >
> > > > full-time developers.
> > > >
> > > > Nathan
> > >
> > > If only there were a Linux organization/corporation with those kind
> > > of
> > > financial resources...
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Jim Kimball
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> > Tony Dean
> > Linux: The choice of a GNU Generation!
> >
> >
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