[H-GEN] which Redhat?
Harry Phillips
harry at tux.com.au
Wed Apr 9 02:30:24 EDT 2003
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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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