CBS MarketWatch: Are we facing Linux overload? Dec 16, 1999, 16 :26 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (4707 reads) (Other stories by Jeff Clabaugh)
"No matter how much of a threat Linux is to Microsoft, one thing it
can't be is "the next Microsoft". As an operating system, it could
give mighty Windows a good run for the money, but as a business,
all the companies lining up behind the new operating system can't.
And that's the argument Morningstar columnist Pat Dorsey makes."
"So what's the worry? Companies like Red Hat...and VA Linux...have rocketed to nosebleed
levels after going public on investor optimism
about Linux, and Dorsey thinks a lot of people
will end up losing sleep and/or money over
betting against Microsoft this way. He says
the Linux Mania is just that, a mania."
