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Performance Computing: The UNIX boycott of PCExpo…

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 26, 1999

“Luckily there’s Linux…If IT buyers could not see UNIX
demos at PCExpo this week, they were at least able to glimpse
Linux
, both at the packed Linux Pavilion and elsewhere at the
show. Cygnus drew crowds for its full-scale IDE for Linux… This
product looks like it will blow Metrowerks’ competing IDE out of
the water… Linux system vendors also made an appearance.
Rebel.com… showed its Netwinder 275 Internet server
appliance…Atipa intends to become the Dell of Linux system
suppliers.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

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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