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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (8501)	1/12/2000 4:28:00 PM
From: mowa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Tom, That post wasn't to you per se` but the thread in general (you were just the last in line). No, sorry, I don't have the link, that was off a PDF file I downloaded a while back. And I will go out on a limb here, I don't think Win2k is going to have serious new market penetration. I believe they are going to have hard going into the enterprise, the handheld, and overseas, that covers the fastest growing segments. I believe they are going to be defending territory. I do agree that as more ISVs do native ports imperfect middleware solutions will be maginalized, and that MS will try to keep their APIs a moving target. Intuit is one of the few remaining major players on the desktop that hasn't begun or anounced Linux ports of their product line (and I read one rumor that reported a Linux announcement by them by Q2). mowa

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (8501)	1/12/2000 5:43:00 PM
From: Eveline Bernard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

See, Tom Mowa's post with the Wine explanation is what I wanted to know. To my opinion this is the most important sentence: "To be accepted as a desktop operating system, Linux must have a variety of commercial applications for users to choose from. The program loader makes Windows applications immediately available to Linux users." Of course, updating for Win2K API AND Wine API is a job with a bucket full of eale in slime. I doubt if Cowpland realizes that, too. I agree that it is better to develop for Linux directly. But this is not done overnight. So a trick has to be drawn. Wine! for the time being ... What I would like to hear from Corel is: "We are redesigning our software for pure JAVA at pure Linux..." Corel, do I hear a YES? Did you make a start? Tom, your comment on the Newbee - or what's its name - news release is funny and very to the point. The most positive that can be said on this news is that Corel is not completely clueless about there Linux nitwitness. In the meantime, making all this noise, Cowpland keeps media focus on Linux and so helps Linux spreading on, I think. Bye Eveline