> Had I come to you in 1985 and said that in 10 years the Berlin Wall will be gone and the Rooskies will be our big friends, you would have rapped me in the mouth for being so stupid.
Actually, I had anticipated seeing those events in my lifetime, as at some time the Commies Must Die mantra was beginning to wear a bit thin by the late 70s. We needed a new national enemy. It was found with the War On Drugs for a while, until the DoDruggies began to get into political positions <g>, and now newly reformed with the War On Terrorism. The US is a warring nation, despite all claims to the contrary. Our economy depends on conflict, the cash flow lubricates business, even if it drives us into deeper debt. But as the older enemies tire out new enemies must be (and are) found. It seems every nation does this, not just the US. As for the change from Windows to Linux (much less Mac), it is too large a change in coding and tech support to make it worth anyone's while in my industry. For a while Mazda was the only non-M$ platform, as they used OS/2 Warp (remember that OS?). Then suddenly they began to migrate toward Windows. Next thing I know all my clients are running Windows PCs for their manufacturer communications. All of the fancy-assed satellite system infrastructures and proprietary desktop applications began to go away. Now all manufacturers require dealerships to use Internet Explorer (v-6 for now, all are avoiding IE7 still), and have migrated to on-line solutions as opposed to desktop solutions. None of them seem to work well with FireFox, and since there is no "reason" for the manufacturers to spend the extra bucks to allow their apps to run on FireFox, much less accommodate IE7 (yet), it seems quite unlikely any of them are going to broach the "let's go Linux" hurdle. There is no margin for them in doing so, although it could benefit the dealers quite nicely IMHO in terms of reducing the burdens of dealing with Windows related problems. Gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Nice Virus Story Gil Hale wrote: > Shame I will never see Linux or > Mac OS X replace Windows in the retail automobile dealership world. I am > stuck with Windows, and all the bad things that come with it. > Never say never. Had I come to you in 1985 and said that in 10 years the Berlin Wall will be gone and the Rooskies will be our big friends, you would have rapped me in the mouth for being so stupid. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
