IBM stock jumped up $3.26 today after 2 weeks of almost steady declines. Jonathan Hutchins wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel@kc.rr.com] >> > >>Here is a neat story about linux making inroads into another >>market niche! >> > >>http://my.netscape.com/corewidgets/news/story.psp?cat=50380&id >>=200209251640000204294 >> > > (IBM is using Linux for POS terminals.) > > Old news. POS Terminals have been running on *NIX for decades. There was a > brief flurry of Windows PC's running terminal emulators, but why pay $500 > for the software ($250 for Windows, $250 for Rumba) when you can run Linux > instead? > > (Hmmm, what's IBM's stock at today...) > > > >