On Sunday 05 August 2007 13:54, Satish Alwani wrote:
> I am not totally all anti MS and stuff. Thats not the way I think, > but honestly its all about the freedom of choice. People today are > looking more towards an iMac than they did some years ago. Why? > Well, thanks to vista believe it or not. As the old saying goes, > immitation is the best form of flattery, people know that vista is > a pure rip off of the mac tiger. However, their main concern for > moving out is backward compatibility with their existing OS > applications. What they fail to realize isthey can get most of it > working today either through the likes of Wine or virtualizing your > old existing windows. What they fail to realize is that they are in deeep trouble using M$ software (as well as most other closed software). Backward compatibility is the least of the problems and merely a red herring they are chasing. The faster you ditch closed formats and closed software the safer u are. > In which case you are free to migrate while > at the same time giving you the option of moving back and forth > with a live system. Whats this got to do with pushing linux. > EVERYTHING! > Vendors and users alike are sometimes unaware of the power of > virtualization and what Wine has to offer. Most office people today > mostly use spreadsheets, word documents, and emails. Offices mostly > run on intranet solutions. Most other applications they have access > to are mostly written in Visual Basic. Of which these applications > do seem to run fine on wine. If they do have any other > applications, they can always boot into windows and use it as and > when they need to, encompassing the security of the host OS onto > the guest os within a sandboxed environment. As long as u cant convert your data - which is what this discussion highilights - no amount of virtulisation is going to benefit you. Infact it is only going to increase your pain. > Ofcourse the > possibilities of this could be rather endless, as organisations > which can look towards thin client computing, mostly dont due to > their dependency on windows environment. This factor can eliminate > that as well. > > If vendors and users are aware that their choice of moving can be > complimented instead of complicated by dual boots etc., You are lulling yourself into false comfort. M$ shenanigans deserve only contempt. History is repeating itself with the current ODF /OOXML saga and the stooopid Microvel deal. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
