Using WINE or VMWare does cover the inadequate coding skills of some programmers who appear to be unable to make their apps cross-platform compatible. It does inject an additional level of complexit
So you maybe would suggest everything be coded in Java? Which would give the programmer a tool with all the elegant simplicity of C++ and the blazing speed of Smalltalk? <G> Mike NF4L _______________
FireFox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, OpenOffice, and many other apps started in Linux and were ported to the MS version of windows and to Apple. Home Depot runs their entire corporation under Linux. Thi
"Home Depot runs their entire corporation under Linux." I don't understand your point and/or logic. Every Home Depot store has orange colored signs. Should I paint my house and car orange? Cheers, Cl
The suggestion that there are Linux solutions is often mocked by the uninformed -- I was merely pointing out that a major corporation disagrees -- and is doing quite well. Just came upon this site w
Huh? What "religious significance"? I merely offered an opinion as to the desirability of accessible and cross-platform compatible vs proprietary software for Hams -- in keeping with the long Ham tr
Not sure about that. Compare the stock price of Home Depot and Lowes (I don't know their IT infrastructure choice). Both companies are near 52 week lows and are tracking fairly closely to each other.