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InfoWorld: Notes From The Field

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 3, 1999

[ Thanks to Ben
Tilly
for this link. ]

It’s also becoming harder to separate the facts from the
hype surrounding Linux.
Talk to anyone at Microsoft, and Linux
is being widely ignored by enterprises. Talk to anyone who dislikes
Microsoft (i.e., anyone else), and Linux is about to sink
Microsoft’s ship. For this reason, you can choose to believe this
or not: Oracle folks say downloads of Linux-based software from its
Web site are outstripping those of other OSes by a factor of five
to one.”

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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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