Hi there!
On 11 Dec 99, at 19:49, Paula Ford wrote
about "Re: SOT Linux port?":
Well, Paula, I think you're quite right:-) In fact, I wasn't arguing
against "TB for Linux" at all --- it *might* become a winner:-)
But if you ask _me_, I'll tell you what mailer I _do_ use and
_will_ be using under Linux. That's Mutt. (Pine is nice, too:-)). I
don't care about the GUI _at_all_, especially under Linux. GUI
matters when you don't have proper CLI (which's the case with
*DOS):-))
> > *I* personally don't think so, unless Corel Linux proves to be working
> > OS... They've released it finally a couple of days ago. But they
> > charge for it...
>
> *I* personally agree with you, Alexander. May we live long enough to eat
> crow. But, there is obviously a significant market for a _small_
> company, like RIT Labs. The Corel's FTP servers have been jammed since
> they released the Linux OS and places like Buy.com sold out in a week.
> Of course, Corel being Corel - and I'm a longtime user of the WP family
> of software - they managed to frustrate alot of users when the
> 'user-friendly' installation program Corel designed crashed, because of
> conflicts with some obscure video chips - like the S3 Virge and ATI
> Rage. Duh. Typifying, though, Linux's obstacles to making any serious
> inroads in the Windows market.
>
> OTOH, I see some interesting signs of interest in Linux from some
> interesting actors, the most recent and notable here being the federal
> government. In a supported environment, everything could be moved to
> Linux, if the office productivity applications are there. The pricing of
> NT5 for the workplace - and MS backed off their first predatory pricing
> scheme, but it revealed their thinking - is important in both the
> government and small business sectors and could alone drive a move to
> Linux.
>
> In any case, if I were RIT Labs, I'd definitely be making plans for the
> port ASAP.
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SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
http://mph.phys.spbu.ru/~akiselev
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