Re: tlug: US Postal uses Linux

[craigoda@example.com]

From: Cliff Miller <cliff@example.com>
Subject: Re: tlug: US Postal uses Linux
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 07:24:30 +0900

cliff> > http://members.aa.net/~jtaves/linux.htm
cliff> 
cliff> Craig, are you sure this is the correct address. I get a DNS lookup
cliff> failure. I wanted to make sure whether this was a problem on my side
cliff> or perhaps a bad url.

Cliff, 
the site seems to be down.  Since the article was so interesting,
I have mirrored it at

   http://tlug.linux.or.jp/~craigoda/linux_usage/us_postal.html

Perhaps this is a more reliable site using a more reliable OS?
I think it's using TurboLinux.  ;-)

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A quote from Infoworld:


http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980424.ecandreesen.htm


Posted at 9:28 AM PT, Apr 24, 1998 
BOSTON -- The Linux operating system will find a broader base of support 
in the next several years and could wind up being the biggest threat to 
Microsoft's Windows NT platform, Marc Andreessen, co-founder
and executive vice president of products at Netscape Communications said 
here Friday. 

"Linux is going to consolidate the Unix market around itself," 
Andreessen said during his keynote speech at a meeting of the Massachusetts 
Software Council. 



More Linux Stuff from PC Week:

"Notably, I did not get a single message from anyone who took the position 
that Windows NT was good enough. Quite the opposite: Several messages 
expressed a resigned expectation that Windows NT 5.0 would stagger out the 
door, burdened with immature add-on services but without achieving
corporate-class reliability in its basic functions. 

"I heard from one reader who said that at his site, Linux on a 486 is 
outperforming Windows NT on a 200MHz Pentium, and he has Linux machines 
that have been running without interruption since before Windows NT 4.0 
was released. 

"I also heard from enterprise-class sites where Linux is considered a 
proven choice, with source-code accessibility outweighing the dubious 
advantage of more traditional vendor support. What others
promise someday, Linux gives many users now--at a bargain price. 

-- Peter Coffee, We do not have a failure to communicate, PC Week, 4-13-98.