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Linu in the news
Here are a couple of different articles from this week's TBTF (Tasty Bits
from the Technology Front) mail digest that mention Linux.
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:58:25 -0600
From: Keith Dawson <dawson@world.std.com>
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Subject: TBTF for 1/12/98: Immune response
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TBTF for 1/12/98: Immune response
T a s t y B i t s f r o m t h e T e c h n o l o g y F r o n t
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This issue: < http://www.tbtf.com/archive/01-12-98.html >
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C o n t e n t s
Microsoft makes nice
The fringes of spam fighting
Chinese Internet regulations
Why SGI should worry
A spy satellite of one's own
Multilingual chat
The view from Softpro
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..Why SGI should worry
Digital Domain rendered visual f/x for Titanic on 160 Digital
Alphas running Linux
Like many high-end Hollywood creative houses, Digital Domain [17]
relied on Silicon Graphics workstations for most of its creative and
rendering work. When DD won the contract for the film Titanic, they
knew they would need to bolster the complement of 350 SGI worksta-
tions to meet the volume and time constraints the project imposed.
An article in Linux Journal [18] describes the outcome. DD purchased
and installed 160 Alpha machines, pre-configured with a tinkered Red
Hat Linux 4.1 distribution and individual names and IP addresses, on
a 100-Mbps network, inside of two weeks. They found the compatibility,
stability, and above all price/performance of the Alpha/Linux combin-
ation unbeatable. SGI should worry.
[17] http://www.d2.com/
[18] http://www.linuxjournal.com/current/2494.html
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..The view from Softpro
Forget the hype, here's where it's really at
This week TBTF introduces a new feature -- a look at the industry
through the lens of sales patterns at an established bookstore for
computer professionals. Rick Treitman and his brother Bob run Soft-
pro [29] in Burlington, Massachusetts (founded 1983). (A third bro-
ther, Jim, runs Softpro in Denver, Colorado.) Rick writes:
> Our view of the industry is a bit different than most. We tend
> to see where the development action is -- as opposed to the
> marketing noise. Our customers are people who need to crank
> out code and who are generally trying to take advantage of the
> latest technical developments.
Please let me know what you think of this feature; it could be-
come a TBTF regular.
[29] http://www.softpro.com/
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| The View from Softpro |
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| by Rick Treitman <rick@softpro.com> |
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| Softpro, 112 Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01803-5300 |
| v.781-273-2917 f.781-273-2499 www.softpro.com |
| |
| Linux |
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| 1997's best seller was not a book, it was Red Hat Linux 5.0. We |
| have observed the Linux phenomenon steadily gathering steam for |
| a couple of years now. In 1997 Red Hat took the sales lead, by |
| a wide margin, over all of the other Linux distributors (Yggdra- |
| sil, Debian, Caldera, & Infomagic). Even more compelling is the |
| momentum Red Hat is building: release 5.0 has sold at twice the |
| rate of the previous release, 4.2. What we're seeing represents |
| a victory for garage-shop software development, in that Red Hat |
| is able to compete successfully against well-financed companies |
| ten times its size. Red Hat Linux is also considerably more pop- |
| ular than the long-established FreeBSD. |
| |
| Red Hat's popularity has not gone unnoticed. SCO, until now the |
| high-priced Unix, just released through Prentice Hall Technical |
| Publishing a professional version of SCO Unix, for $79.99. They |
| have to be feeling the market heat of so much good free Unix. |
| |
| Red Hat has forged a couple of valuable alliances: with Applix, |
| whose Applixware software suites Red Hat now offers (in a separ- |
| ate box), and with the Free Software Foundation, whose familiar |
| "Gnu" logo graces the latest release of Red Hat Power Tools. |
| |
| Java |
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| Softpro http://www.softpro.com/ |
| Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/ |
| Yggdrasil http://www.yggdrasil.com/ |
| Debian http://www.debian.org/ |
| Caldera http://www.caldera.com/ |
| Infomag http://www.infomagic.com/ |
| SCO http://www.sco.com/ |
| Applix http://www.applix.com/ |
| FSF http://www.fsf.org/ |
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