That would be my guess as well. There is just a point where you tell client [with money] NT 4.0 needs to be replaced by Win3k Server. Or what ever is running on NT 4.0 should be run on a Linux machine running wine.
Just my $0.02. -Miller On 2/12/07, Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My guess: the clients [with money] will tell you what "good business" is. ben On 2/12/07, Michael Miller < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NT 4.0? Why would your company support a OS that is no longer > supported? That is just asking for trouble. > > On 2/11/07, Russ Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mr O wrote: > > > the major operating systems (linux, OS X.3,4,5, M$ 2000, XP, Vista). > > Don't count just those. > > > > The software company I work for supports the following: > > > > Windows NT 4.0 and up > > Linux, Redhat and SuSE officially, but it runs on just about any > > distribution we've tried. > > Solaris 7.0 and up on Sparc, 10 on Intel. > > HP-UX 11.0 and up on PA-Risc and Itanium > > AIX 4.3 and up on PowerPC. AIX on S390 unofficially. > > > > We've also been known to make it work on FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. > > > > I believe some of the developers have it running on their MacBook Pro > > Core 2 Duo systems. But that's not official yet either. > > > > My point is that SOME software companies DO support lots of OSes. > > Unfortunately, it's a very expensive proposition to port code from one > > platform to another, and businesses have to make a profit, or they don't > > hang around. > > > > Don't give me the OSS argument. We tried that... Our product was open > > source at one time. It stagnated as an open source product, so it is > > again proprietary. > > > > Russ > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > euglug@euglug.org > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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