I knew Corel had a GUI out but I haven't seen it yet. Sounds very
promising though from what you have said.

Jeff Jackson
DITW, Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wade [SMTP:wade@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 5:58 PM
> To: 'IBDI@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [IBDI] wishlist item is this possible?
>
> From: wade <wade@...>
>
> 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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