tlug: Infoworld Review

[joem <joem@example.com>]

reprint from the RedHat mailing list

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The Linux Community wins Best Technical Support Award (InfoWorld) 

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/97poy.supp.htm

"The online support via Usenet, Web pages, and IRC is far better than
anything that you can get from a commercial vendor, as far as
resolving real-world problems," wrote one InfoWorld Electric forum
participant, who offered the analogy of a Microsoft Access customer
calling Microsoft on a hard-to-solve problem. "So imagine, if you
will, that the Microsoft staffer on the line directs you to a Web page
where you can download free of charge the latest release of SQL Server
and a free copy of C++ in order to solve your problem, and then
follows this up a week later by e-mailing you a program that was
written in his/her spare time that extends your program in some new
way ... `Impossible! [It will] never happen!' you say ... [but] this
sort of thing literally happens hundreds of times, every day of the
week, all year long."


RedHat Linux wins best Operating System of the year (InfoWorld) 

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/97poy.win3.htm#linux

For $49.95, the operating system includes everything you need to set
up any number of Unix host configurations, an intranet platform, a Web
server, a development box, or a multimedia desktop. The possibilities
are further enhanced by the plethora of free and commercial software
available for Linux.


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