[H-GEN] which Redhat?

[Harry Phillips]

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Ewan Edwards wrote:
> On Wednesday 9 April 2003 09:11 am, Peter Arnold wrote:
> 
>>So what happened to RH 8.1 etc? I was sitting back and waiting for the
>>"mature" version of 8 when they seemed to have moved on to version
>>9....Sigh...
> 
> 
> I was curious about that too.  I suspect its a marketing thing - you know like 
> Netscape went from 4.7 to 6 in response to MS not being able to get IE right 
> and having to bring out so many new versions that they had v6 when Netscape 
> was still at 4.78.  :-(

An example of this from the marketing Gods of the IT world, did anyone 
see Microsoft Word version 4.x or 5.x or is it as I suspect they did the 
'jump to the same version number of a competitior' to catch up to 
WordPerfect?

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Regards,
Harry Phillips

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