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To: mowa who wrote (8368)	12/27/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

mowa, your list of Linux World Domination stoppers is close. Ease of install is the boogie man. But to me that includes getting a gui up and Xfree86 is a stumbling block. Once Linux is installed and you can reboot and bring up X, the other item mentioned are relatively 1% problems compared with the install problems. The other somewhat more important issue is color printer drivers that support the full resolution of inexpensive ink-jets. mtools make floppies a non issue. hmmm... an mtools kind of operation for cdroms. xfm and xv and netscape make or easy file browsing. wine is just fooling oneself, until applications are fully ported then widespread adoption won't happen. Emulation is a can of worms of poor performance and stability. The best and the brightest don't care about this and regard it as a form of prostitution. Emulation is not working to have applications as good as the competition today. Emulation is working to have applications as good as the competition two years ago. Sound support would make fully ported applications nicer. None, (linux distribution creators)as far as I can tell, understand what true auto install is and no one is working the problem. In the Open source model we explains how the bazaar creates better code than the cathedral model, this is true for many types of software. But xfree86 the xserver is hundreds of custom hardware devices and not just anyone can write device drivers. Plug and play is another hardware specific area. High resolution print drivers are another hardware specific area. These are the area where a cathedral with central control can more create a consistent interface. I always use commercial xig AcceleratedX for my xserver as I've found that the install for over a dozen different video cards is identical. Now over time hardware manufactures may all start supporting Linux, but until some higher level of penetration the lack of this universal hardware support will always be a problem for the level of ease of install. So I see no advantage to corl's distribution and several reviews have paned it and several have praised it. But then other distributions get similar reviews. The problem for corl is that the corl products are not outstandingly better than anything and I don't see companies or indivividual's migrating or changing for replacements. In my watman.com I go over other competitive aspects of corl. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: mowa who wrote (8368)	12/27/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: micromike	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

And for those who put a lot of hope in Star Office/Sun consider this, Sun was the architect and guiding hand of Java and bears principle responsibility for it's lack of success in the market. How much of Corel's Word Perfect/Java failure was tied to Java's larger failure? You are totally wrong on this one. Cowpie came out and said he would have a COJ suite when Java started to get some attention. The key word here is attention. Java didn't even have file and printing capabilities back then. It appears that most people still don't understand how he operates. The CEO of a company must have vision, understanding of the business he is in and most of all credibility. He pumped up COJ not knowing the technology for his application wasn't there and milked it till the cows came home. He was nobody at the first Java one conference and all of a sudden he was the talk of the conference due to his COJ effort. You can't blame Sun for his lack of understanding of the technology. He also lacks credibility and vision so the bottom line is he shouldn't be the CEO of Corel. Linux is the next big thing to get major attention and now Cowpie is right in the middle of it. Why can't this guy come up with his own attention getting idea. Let see way back when he had Coreldraw when Windows was first released. So far on my score card he has only been successful in one product Coreldraw. Now I think he is losing market share in that area. He has failed in many other products. How does that story go about a boy who cried wolf. The question is if he fails in his Linux effort will he dump his remaining millions of share just before the bad news or has he been slowly dumping them now? JMHO Mike

To: mowa who wrote (8368)	12/27/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 9798

Mowa, I would suggest that you visit IBM's or Oracle's website, followed perhaps by several hundred other companies that have bet their businesses on Java technology. You simply could not have put your foot deeper in it when you stated that Java has not been a success. Thank you for exposing your ignorance so we know to simply ignore your comments. I'll be damned if I can think of a single more ridiculous statement in my life. Are you paid by Corel to post silly statements in the hope of confusing investors? Even confusion is better than the cold hard facts where Corel is concerned. They bungled OLAP, the Netwinder, Java and just about everything else they've touched. Sun dismissed Corel, Redhat dismissed Corel, and now you're telling us that Sun is the reason for Corel's failure? What a piece of work you are. How much do they pay you to make these comments?