<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> If Macs ae better then why did Bill Gates buy 25% of the company? It was to keep M$ from having a true monopoly when Mac went bankrupt. Bye Pat Henry Hartley wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid446DDE75CFC7E1438061462F85557B0F38B0AA@remail2.westat.com"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-----Original Message----- From: Jim Hays [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:haysja@sages.us">mailto:haysja@sages.us</a>] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:17 AM I started to answer this last night but didn't send it. My answer was similar to George's. Here is what I run into: "This is not what the kids will see in college or the work place." </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This is just plain wrong, at least the college part. Here's a quote from Mark Andreessen in BusinessWeek: "Another key thing to remember is that everyone coming out of college is familiar with Linux. It has over- whelming market share in colleges and universities. In every computer science program I'm aware of, it's the default language people teach on. They like it because it's open-source, and you can look at how it really works. The reason that's important is because those kids leaving college will enter the workforce and bring those skills to their employers." </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">"Macs are simply better and I can show you Total Cost of Ownership studies to back that up." (Of course, could these TCO studies have been done by Apple?) </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> >From the same article: "Most of the studies that show Linux is not cheaper have been funded by the old vendors. You'll typically find an analyst study that was paid for by Sun or Microsoft. That's compromised research. "What the customers will tell us, and I am not in the business of selling hardware or operating systems, is that they're saving a lot of money. Morgan Stanley has an 80-20 rule. That rule goes like this: They're replacing 80% of their Sun system with Intel boxes for 20% of the cost." <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040330_9468_tc167">http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040330_9468_tc167</a> .htm </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>