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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1615)	7/7/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

I have been having the odd problem with Applixware Word clone. I tried to import a word 6.0 file and Applix hung. It basically trashed me out of X. When I rebooted the hard drive would not come up. After a while that fixed itself! (Wonder if the master/slave drives are on the right position on the IDE cable? Is there a heirarchy?) Kind of daunting. On a second try I did a few things differently in going through the import and it informed me that it could not import fast-saved files. I resaved the file with fast-save taken out of Word 6.0 options but Applix still choked. The file was replete with colour illustrations that were all over the page and about 5 megs. As a *.pdf file it was handled "well" by XPDF and even Ghostview although I did not try GIMP. Another problem I had with 4.4.1 was that I could not get page numbering to work at all. Let alone split latin-arabic page numbering for different sections. I had trouble with that in Word 6.0 too. Where would you start? Should I rehabitate to another planet and stick to analog computers? Change my bio-form and reincarnate as a lower species, say Irish? Try another OS? Give up on complex software and go back to ROFF? WAWOT. sheesh! mailto:echarter@grubstake.on.ca NetLinux, the new GUI solution

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1615)	7/7/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: Yeshua	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

What do you guys think of this? >>>>>>>>>>> PC Week News Linux for mission-critical apps? Not so crazy By Anne Chen, PC Week Online July 5, 1999 9:00 AM ET There is no great genius, it is said, without a touch of madness. It remains to be seen if Scott Gibson is a genius. Today, though, more than a few of his colleagues would probably say the vice president of hotel IT for Cendant Corp. has lost his marbles. That's because Gibson is in the process of deploying one of his company's most mission-critical applications on Linux. At a cost of $75 million, Cendant, the world's largest hotel franchiser, is installing the open-source operating system to run reservation management software at 4,000 locations. zdnet.com; Regards Yeshua