<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>    Should  we change this to a= new topic heading?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>    Dale</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>Hi, Bernhard,<BR><BR>At 08:18 PM 10/4/2004, you wrote:<BR>>Dean,<BR>>i h= ave it not planned yet. Is there anybody out there running Linux in the<BR>>business?<BR><BR>That would be a very tough call, at the moment.  There is a great deal of <BR>hubbub and activity around vari= ous Linux flavors, but nothing that has <BR>really gelled yet.  I look fo= r that momentum to pick up as more and more <BR>folks take the time to read their end user license agreements with <BR>Microsoft and figure out that t= hey have, essentially, lost ownership of <BR>their machines.<BR><BR>In the sho= rt term, there is not enough Linux use to justify a huge effort <BR>to suppor= t that platform if most of your development S/Ware is <BR>MS-based.  At= the same time, there is clearly a growing number of folks who <BR>are looking outside the MS bandwagon; and, I suspect that, inveterate <BR>tinkerers th= at we are, a number of piano technicians will at least spend <BR>some time working with Linux.<BR><BR>Hope this is of some use to you.<BR><BR>Thanks = very much for your posts!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>