Per: I share your enthusiasm and your reservation about what is said vs. what is actually do-able. You may have more up-to-date practical experience because starDivision is a german built suite. However, the information I see from Sun Microsystems press releases is they will release the source code to developers. IF that is true then a vertical market developer would be able to have their specialty offering PLUS a full suite of "Office" style applications. The time from saying that you can do blan-blah-blah through to the date that you can actually ship out a finished product is probably going to be several years. Based on my experience with other Microsoft & Sun promised tool kits vs. waiting until the stuff is actually usable by mere mortals. I think we are going to see the SURVPC marketplace start to reflect the growing availability of later generation hardware. So we will see more and more users having powerful SURVPC hardware from the P-60 to P-100 era having less problems running late model Linux. Versus attempting to use it on say a 386/25 with 16 MB RAM and a 500 MB hard drive. IF you can divide the home & small office systems into a server and workstation configuration then you'll probably see a lot of P-class on the desktop and 386-486 on the server side being a usable combination. John O To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
