On Friday 20 April 2001 17:31, Tim Fairchild wrote: > > They have but one product. If they're not allowed to make money on it > > they don't exist. If all people thought the way some in this > > conference do, they wouldn't. Fortunately this doesn't seem to be > > true. > > There is another way to look at this. To make money from a product, people > have to buy it. Before they will buy a product they have to have confidence > in the product. > > Can I be confident in buying win4lin v3.0? How long will it last? How long > until I can get it? How long will I be running linux 2.4 without it. > > Can I be confident that I won't have to buy win4lin v4.0 in 6 months? > > I think mostly we are looking for some assurances to regain some product > confidence. At this stage I am uncertain as to whether I should buy win4lin > v3.0 or recomend it to others... Absolutely. I want to know that the version's life-cycle is sufficiently long enough, that I'll get my money's-worth. I also want to know if Win4Lin is ever going to support right-to-left languages, and if so, when? In what version? What time-frame? Sure, I think that on a certain level it's "cool" to run Windows/Windows-apps on a Linux desktop, but my only *need* is to read/write Hebrew documents in MS Office apps and to access Hebrew-language websites in IE/Netscape. Other than these, I use apps that compile on my native OS. I'd rather use Win4Lin and run Windows/98; however, today I've got no choice and it's VMware with Windows/2000. Sure, with VMware it's my employer's dime, but *I* paid for my copy of Win4Lin/1.0 -- if Win4Lin/n.n will give me the BIDI language support I need, I'll gladly pay for it (upgrade OR full-price). Will someone from NeTraverse give an indication, or are they only planning 3-months down the line?
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