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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: t2 who wrote (28322)	8/17/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 74651

>>So. Did you ever trying using any of these. (re: wordprocessors)<< Sure I have. WordPerfect on Linux is very easy to use, can open/save Word 97 documents, and how to use it will be immediately obvious to anybody who is familiar with Word. Personally, I use VIM or Lyx/Latex for wordprocessing, but I wouldn't recommend that to people. >>I think you are overestimating the threat MSFT would face from any of these.<< I never claimed that these were a threat to MSFT, just offered them as a suggestion to anybody looking for stability. I agree with you that time is more important than money, and my not losing work in crashes is definitely a time-saver. I have one machine where I run both Linux and WinNT. If you install VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/), you can run your main applications on Linux, with all the stability that you need, then use VMWare when you need compatibility with a Microsoft application that you cannot already get through a Linux app (there are many occasions where this is necessary). This setup is more expensive than just buying a Windows computer, because you have to buy both VMWare and Windows. But the time-savings from having no crashes or lost work (not to mention the outstanding automation capabilities of Linux) is well worth it. I believe that I have a screenshot of WinNT running from within Linux at blevins.simplenet.com It is really nice because when/if NT crashes, it only crashes itself, not the rest of my applications, and all the files are saved on the Linux file server. :-) -Mitch