Sender: saines AT uunet DOT uu DOT net Message-ID: <3624ED93.A7E6AD60@elves.net> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:29:39 -0400 From: wayward Organization: The Home for Wayward Elves X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: GEM GUI References: <199810141717 DOT NAA03950 AT internet1 DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com > >Caldera and New Deal strike me as being in similar situations. > >Caldera could use a good office suite for its product, and New Deal > >need an underyling DOS to provide a file system for it. They need > >each other, when it comes right down to it, and both of them are > >starving for publicity. I can only see benefits in them teaming up. > >Steven Hurdle > > I am not so sure I agree. New Deal seems to be focusing on older slower > machines much more than I think Caldera is. New Deal is aiming its products > towards schools and business that have old equipment. Caldera really like > the embedded products as a market. DR-DOS also goes well with Open Linux, I > have read. I see Caldera as looking forward, but New Deal as backwards to > support machines (and in effect people) that got left behind and bring them > up to speed as best as can be. > > Chad A. Fernandez > Battle Creek, MI > > Net-Tamer V 1.09.2 - Test Drive I haven't tried New Publisher with my DR-DOS, but I would think that each would benefit by having links to the other on their websites at the very least. Perhaps New Deal could become involved as an OEM for DR-DOS, combining it with their current product to create more value for their customers. I was under the impression, however, from looking at New Deal's webpage that their software was an operating system in it's own right and did not require a separate DOS. Am I wrong on this? -- THIS MESSAGE IS PERSONAL EMAIL. IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF UUNET WORLDCOM, ITS MANAGEMENT, EMPLOYEES, OR HOUSEHOLD PETS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven R. Aines saines AT uu DOT net UUNET WorldCom http://www.uu.net