I think corel linux gui is already there...I had a windows user on it that
did not even realize it was not windows...until they changed the video
resolution....which they already knew how to do :). I am a slackware/suse
user, but I got to say corel has it going on.

Randal

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Jeff Jackson wrote:

> From: Jeff Jackson <JeffJ@...>
>
> 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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