Re: RANT: Why Sun is losing to Linux

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Neil W Rickert wrote:

It's a fact - a psychological fact - that people learn to compute
on personal desktop systems, and their experience with those desktop
systems greatly influences what they purchase for servers.

Indeed; the number of pictures of "server rooms" full of racks
(and I don't mean 19" racks) of PCs in tower cases is ample
proof of this...

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