At 11:58 PM 4/18/00 , Robert Leonard wrote:
>Not intending to start a flame-session, but.......
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>I personally am very interested in WINE as it relates to M$ based 
>products.. As a consultant who pays the bills supporting M$ products, but 
>at the same time uses linux, and installs/supports it as well in a 
>commercial setting.
>I most definately want to know about other pluggers experiences with not 
>only products from redmond, but other win32 based apps.

You will not start a flame session with me on this issue.  I agree.  I want to
reduce our reliance on M$ products, but cannot afford to ignore clients who
have the M$ slant.  We have NT, NT-TSE, Win95, Win98, and probably some
Win2000 out of self-defense.  Too many of our bills are paid by supporting
M$ products for us to ignore it.  If we can build our revenue with sales of our
business software into the Linux community, we will squeeze out the M$
support and reliance on that revenue more quickly.

Incidentally, I have lately identified some potential for our business 
management
software to install in OS/2 Warp4 environments.  Anyone on this list have
experience in working with OS/2?

>Yes MS Office is bloated, expensive, and probably caused the titanic to 
>sink, but it is "today" the most widely used office application, and 
>personally i'd use it over any of the 3 below listed, but wouldn't it be 
>great (maybe it's possible now) to be able to run it under linux.
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>>We are interested in happenings regarding WINE, but not in the context
>>of making more M$ software run on it.  Most of us on the PLUG list
>>relate more to Star Office, Applix, Corel Office, and other non-M$ solutions.
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>>Our interest is in seeing M$ applications displaced, replaced and squeezed
>>off our desktops.
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