Or VMware. Kev. (look at me with the short email)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Van Dellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:25 AM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Evangelism - Another MS OS Victim Don't forget to tell them about Win4Lin. www.netraverse.com It will run almost everything a regular person would need. Except DirectX so no Games, but office apps and photo apps work great. It's not free and you still need a copy of windows 98. But at least it helps bridge the gap. Jason On Monday 21 October 2002 19:51, you wrote: > A customer came in today with a problem. Her entire system was wiped out > and she had no OS disks. I spent about 5 or so minutes with her explaining > the concepts and ideas behind Linus/OSS. She seemed interested and because > we sell Mandrake I took her over to look at it. > > She was quite impressed and when I mentioned the learning curve would be > about the difference between going from Win98 to WinXP. She was all for it > until she said, "I have a bunch of software already bought, Will It work?" > Her inventory included Photoshop, CorelDraw, FrontPage and a few other > power tools like that. I explained that there are free/inexpensive options > in Linxland. I also mentioned things like WINE and what have you for > allowing some programs to work (but not 100%). You could tell she was a > bit upset when she realized she had no choice (at least right now) but to > shag out the $300 for WinXP Home. But I gave her the URL for CLUG and told > her to check it out. She said she definitely would. > > Please be nice to her and try to make her feel welcome. I don't even know > her name but in light of some of the trash talk that has been on the list > lately I just wanted to ask people to mind their P & Q's. I know I will be > watching mine. > > Regards, > > Cameron Nikitiuk -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jason Van Dellen Trilogy-Net Inc. #4; 1935 - 27Ave NE Calgary, AB T2E 7E4 www.trilogy-net.com Phone (403) 219-8868 Fax (403) 219-8860 Cell (403) 815-1626 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
