[DUG]: Where do you want to go if Microsoft split?

2000-06-09 Thread Terry Johnson
OS: Windows NT or Linux? My feeling is that in the medium term Linux will become dominant and MS will fizzle. I think the dynamics of an empire dictate the end of the empire - and this one stopped growing a while back. This is irrespective of the DoJ verdict, the end of MS is determined first by

RE: [DUG]: Where do you want to go if Microsoft split?

2000-06-09 Thread Laurence Bevan
OS: Windows NT or Linux? For those of us old enough to be working in the 80's, Unix was taking the world by storm! Open source (except the good stuff which you had to pay for anyway), non-proprietary (as long as you didn't want to do anything useful), binary compatible (although we never managed

Re: [DUG]: Where do you want to go if Microsoft split?

2000-06-07 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS: Windows NT or Linux? Database: MS SQL Server or Oracle, Sybase, Interbase? Service: DCOM or CORBA? I think regardless of the split Linux with Interbase/Oracle/PostgreSQL with Corba. I think when IB6 is fully done I'll dump PostgreSQL in favor

Re: [DUG]: Where do you want to go if Microsoft split?

2000-06-07 Thread Neven MacEwan
- but COM is pretty common Regards Neven - Original Message - From: Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 June 2000 16:27 Subject: Re: [DUG]: Where do you want to go if Microsoft split? On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 [EMAIL

Re: [DUG]: Where do you want to go if Microsoft split?

2000-06-07 Thread Mark Derricutt
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Neven MacEwan wrote: What state is IB6 at? We are using Postgress but IB6 would be interesting as I feel there will be better support for it (my case tool don't do postgress) I'm not actually sure the state of IB6 as I havn't realy followed it much, however PostgreSQl 7