Thanks to Leo Comitale for
this link.
“Linux is getting so corporate… …that you old freeware
hackers had best start wearing suits. Not the ones your parents
bought you at high-school graduation, either.”
“You’re gonna need one of those fancy Armani numbers Sun’s new
president Ed Zander likes so much, or maybe,one of the humbler
Brooks Brothers suits Hewlett-Packard’s outgoing CEO Lew Platt
favors. The boys in the boardroom have become utterly smitten with
Linux. HP’s Software Services Division is so besotted with the
open-source OS phenom that it has unveiled head-to-toe coverage of
Linux that had heretofore only been fashionable for HP-UX, MPE, and
Windows NT. Next month, HP will begin 24×7 service for its
customers that have any Linux distribution on any hardware
platform. It will guarantee a two-hour response time and give IT
users unlimited phone or e-mail support. Expect this fashion to
catch on quickly.”
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