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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:54:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        stox@enteract.com
Cc:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990420005318.11384x-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904191054170.11472-100000@m4.stox.sa.enteract.com>

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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Kenneth P. Stox wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> > "Kenneth P. Stox" wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Alex Belits wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Look is more like HP surrendered to Microsoft
> > > >
> > > >   Rick Belluzo sabotaged HP and is finishing SGI now.
> > > 
> > > Well, I wouldn't be so fast to attack Rick Belluzo. I just saw his keynote
> > > at COMDEX this evening, and among other things he did announce SGI's
> > > support of LINUX, and the intent of SGI to donate technology to the Open
> > > Software Community. So far, I have not seen any other big vendor announce
> > > the same intent to do so.
> > 
> > Sun?  IBM?  Intel?
> > 
> > Oh that's right, they're all too small to count.  But they did beat
> > SGI to the punch on the Linux thing.
> 
> Well, I'm not so sure about that. What technology has Sun, IBM, or Intel
> agreed to to donate to Linux right now ? I know Sun has made Java open,
> but have they donated any technology directly to the O/S ?

*cough* I think sun is still busy taking technology from _us_ to be giving it
away just yet (Kirk's softupdates, sendfile etc..)

:)

-Alfred

(yes it belongs on -chat, but i couldn't resist) :)




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