All the more reason to like Linux. When they get a good GUI so that it can
be used on client machines watch out. I think Bill Gates already knows his
days of having a monopoly are numbered [whether the governemnt does anything
or not]. As someone earlier wrote I sure hope the stuff works better than
the registry. It will be very interesting to see what Inprise does as far
as a development tool for linux and if it truly does convert windows code
into Linux code. If companies can port there windows applications over to
Linux with a little effort we might see Linux take off relatively quickly.

Jeff Jackson
DITW, Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Lawrence [SMTP:kevin@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:20 AM
> To: IBDI@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [IBDI] wishlist item is this possible?
>
> From: "Kevin Lawrence" <kevin@...>
>
> Jeff Jackson wrote:
> > One has to be careful here. If everything on my computer is stored in a
> DB
> > I sure don't want it to be stored in a M$ database and since they
> control
> > the OS now they are really the only ones that could enforce this rule.
>
> That is EXACTLY what you can expect with future releases of Windows.
> Database functionality is being built into the operating system with the
> following purposes:
> <grassy_knoll_filter>
> - to improve quality and quantity of OS services to manage all things on
> the
> box
> - to reduce the "openess" of object management APIs by introducing poorly
> documented OS specific extensions
> - to increase the proprietary content of the OS, wrt object management,
> and
> increase the competitive barrier to competitive application developers
> - to enhance the the competitive differentiation of products produced by
> the
> owner of the OS
> - to increase the "binding" to the OS of the products produced by the
> owner
> of the OS: these products become an "extension" to the OS ala Internet
> Explorer
> - to reduce attractiveness of other Database products (Oracle, look out)
> </grassy_knoll_filter>
>
> Welcome to the Thunder Dome... ;-)
>
> Kevin
>
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