Talking about MS & Linux, when Microsoft first took over hotmail it was
running on Solaris, microsoft moved it over to NT, found out that NT
couldn't handle worth a damn, so what did they do...moved back over to
solaris...bottom line, microsoft do use *nix.
Robert.
>From: Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:05:50 -0500
>
>In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge -
>especially a full blown productivity app...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!
>
>
>
> > hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as
>linux
> > goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own
>distribution
> > of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I
>can't
> > believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at home (or
>at
> > work) and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that apache is running
> > somewhere in that company.
>
>Just a thought here. Corel has successfully (not in my opinion but in the
>minds of some) ported their Office suite to Linux using Wine. If you dig
>very
>deeply you find that within MS there's a debate about whether they
>should/shouldn't produce MS Office for Linux. Could there be a connection?
>Spin is everything these days it seems. Just thought I'd suggest that this
>story might have a positive spin in the end.
>
>Cheers --- Larry
>
>
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