[H-GEN] A Few Quick Questions

Tony Melia (DMS) Tony.Melia at downsmicro.com.au
Sun Jul 27 21:13:48 EDT 2003


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Unfortunately for Linux, windows terminal server runs very well.  Linux is
great for the tasks that it does well (proxy, samba, PERL web apps), why
waste time trying to get the apps working under wine?  I am a Linux
advocate, but I also setup Windows Terminal servers for a living, and they
work quit well.  The time wasted in getting linux/wine/LTS clients set up
would pretty much pay for the Microsoft licenses anyway (assuming your time
is chargeable).

Regards,
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Black [mailto:gjb at gbch.net] 
Sent: Monday, 28 July 2003 11:04
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On 2003-07-27, Anthony Irwin wrote:

> I do however have a small problem, the company requires that we run 
> some windows software. The software that is required to run is the 
> software they produce and sell.

Well, quite obviously, they need Windows boxes (running whatever Windows
versions they "support"), to develop and test this stuff on.  Anything else
is plain silly (and, from the perspective of the paying customers for that
software, close to fraudulent).

I'm not a fan of using Windows and generally refuse to do so myself, but
this sounds like a situation where they should eat their own dog food.

Cheers, Greg

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