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From: "David Cantrell" <david AT diablo DOT eimages DOT co DOT uk>
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:46:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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Colin Glenn wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
> > Unfortunately, it would be difficult.  In my experience, people who use
> > Win95 either don't know enough to use a better system or are hard-core MS
> > fanatics who'd love to lick Bill's (Gates) *ss, or both :(

Absolute rubbish.  I use Win95 because it does the job I require of 
it, and to upgrade to Linux would be both unnecessary and cause too 
much disruption (even if only temporarily - to replicate the 
complicated networking setup and all the 4DOS batch scripts would 
take days).  I am also rational enough to recognise that MS products 
are not as bad as their detractors make out.  Sure, their marketing 
practices are unethical and the products DO have faults, but they are 
not the spawn of hell that some people seem to think.  No doubt Mr. 
Chambers' favourite OS and applications have faults as well.

> The secretary at my office is pissed at W(% so much so
> that given the chance of landing a better OS, she would.  The ONLY catch
> is that it would have to run access/excel/ect because that's where our
> entire database is and it consists of hundreds of hours of records.

I'm sure it wouldn't be more than one weekends' work to export all 
your data to plain text, install/configure Red Hat Linux and 
Applixware (or the Caldera Network Desktop product), and to import 
all your data.  If the only user of these data is the secretary, 
this is feasible. If they are used in a networked environment, the 
disruption and cost caused by upgrading loads of machines and 
retraining the users may not be worth it.

Another alternative would be OS/2.

-- David Cantrell, http://www.eimages.co.uk/users/davidc/

The meek shall inherit the earth -
and the bold will go to the stars