[H-GEN] intel, netscape and linux

Adrian Bolzan A.Bolzan at chemistry.uq.edu.au
Tue Sep 29 23:23:35 EDT 1998


news item.......

INTEL, NETSCAPE EYE RED HAT SOFTWARE
Intel Corp. and Netscape Communications have been named as "potential
backers" for Red Hat Software, a company that distributes a commercial
version of the Linux operating system.  No one involved in the deal is
talking about it at this point, but industry observers say the move would
give Linux a major boost toward becoming a mainstream alternative to
Microsoft operating systems.  Netscape recently agreed to provide a Linux
version of its server software.  Intel, in the meantime, wants to keep its
options open by investing in operating environments other than its mainstay
Wintel alliance.  "Intel and Microsoft, regardless of what both companies
say, they don't have the closest relationship," says a research director at
Giga Information Group.  "But I think this has more to do with Intel's
generic investment policy, which has them investing irrespective of whether
these companies are competing with Microsoft or not.  This investment would
be consistent with past investments in that it enables a market for Intel
and provides a potential for growth that wouldn't exist otherwise."
(Computer Reseller News 29 Sep 98)
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adrian b.




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Adrian Bolzan
c/- Dept of Chemistry
The University of Queensland
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