From: keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) Subject: Re: Is this becoming comp.linux.advocacy? Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 22:08:45 GMT
In article <CBF3ux.GLC@gator.oau.org> larry@gator.oau.org (Larry D Snyder) writes:
>wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes:
>
>>are companies out there who disagree. Just look at the number of
>>different companies that _sell_ Linux on floppies and CD-ROMS. Also,
>>I hear that the Motif package is selling briskly.
>
>Folks will sell anything for a buck (if there is a market). That
>doesn't mean anything. Call Progress and ask for their database
>package and development system for Linux.
>
>>Linux is also good if the commercial software runs in it's DOS
>>emulator. In 6 months to a year, I am sure you will also be able to
>>use ELF and MS Windows software. Maybe not all of it, and not all the
>
>Why wait when the other Unix products have been doing this for years?
Because you have to have DEEP pockets to do it with other UNIX products
mostly. How much is that progress database for DOS? How about UNIX?
Merge, VP/ix, WABI? How much $$$?
Why pay $1000 for Merge when you can pay $50 for plain DOS? THAT'S WHY
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