From: les@chinet.chinet.com (Leslie Mikesell) Subject: Re: Is this becoming comp.linux.advocacy? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 03:56:45 GMT
In article <24a3ms$47t@uptek88.up.edu>, Steve Ward <steve@up.edu> wrote:
>Because with the Server Merge for Windows add-on (on the order of $300
>extra, as I recall) I can run a DOS or Windows app on my UnixWare machine,
>on the Sparc across the room, or on the X-terminal upstairs via X.
>If/when the freeware OSes offer this sort of functionality they will be viable
>for us...
But, this presents the interesting point that in a networked organization
you could "stretch" the use of your commercial applications by running
them from one or a few machines via X on linux boxes where you could
also be doing other work locally.
Les Mikesell
les@chinet.com