Re: When the pedal hits the metal...

[Andrew Pun <andpun idirect com>]

TRY LOTUS.

If I were a business and making a single driver which can satisfly 95% of the
desktop market. That sounds like an insurance policy.

"Linux" is sort of a humane experiment. How long can these guys keep writing
drivers and do it just for the name of "Linux" while MS is still deliver on
their earings?

This is too much Zen in it. I guess 95% of destop users knew what is going on
and they just sit tight and wait for more application supporting the new
platform. For example, I summerize from an AS/400 datawarehouse and export the
result to ASCII. Then I port it into a Linux envornment then do what? While in
windows I used to string it up to an even bigger text file and open it up in
PageMaker, I will export it to PDF and place on the web. I can do the stringing
part with Perl but does PageMaker has a "Linux version?"

Would my boss settle for the time to re-do the programs and test the result on a
new platform while the existing "works fine?" One factor will change all that,
"It saves money....."

Well there is a joke pass around the industry, ".....there can be only one
company that sold software full of bugs....."

Sleep well, there will be always a better tomorrow.

"CHAN Chow Chin, David" wrote:

> I find that very disturbing as well. If only there were software that are
> able to read MS office files, I would have downloaded it and stoped using
> MS products immediately.
>
> >
> >I still maintain a Windows partition simply because there are applications
> >that run only under Windows.  If they had Linux counterparts, I would be
> >using 100% Linux.  It also bugs me that most hardware pretend that the only
> >operating system on the planet is Windows and thus ship only Windows
> >drivers, installers, tools, etc.
> >
> >- John
> >
>
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