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LAN Times on Linux/Informix





http://www.lantimes.com/98/98jul/Linux.html

   Article:
   For the love of Linux
   By Polly Sprenger 

LAN Times reporter attends Informix Worldwide User Conference and
is astonished and delighted.  Choice quotation from the article:

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In fact, I sat laughing snidely into my notebook
until they showed me a PC running Linux.

And oh! It was as though the heavens opened and
God handed down a client-side OS so beautiful, so
graceful, and so elegant that a million Microsoft
developers couldn't have invented it even if they
had a hundred years and a thousand crates of Jolt
cola.

Four desktops can co-exist as one in Linux land:
one that looks like a Mac, one that looks like
Windows, one that looks like Unix, and one that is
so magical and different we don't even have a
brand name for it yet. I watched as application
after application hit the screen: first a graphic
design program, now a development tool, now a
suite of workgroup apps! And did this PC choke?
Did it stutter? Did it, even once, say that this
program has performed an illegal operation and
must be shut down?

No. And this is just on the client. 

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