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Technology Stocks : Applix is back in action -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (2655)	4/7/1999 2:24:00 PM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 3014

I understand your sentiment- yet of course if the switch is invisible to windows users...ahem...and the consequences of this notion aren't well defined yet, it would make Linux a better competitor.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (2655)	4/7/1999 4:47:00 PM
From: Scott Bergquist	Respond to of 3014

I guess the Corel article had some insights I didn't bother with. Have to read it. GNOME is a GUI interface I have heard touted, but not used. Costs money! Personally I like the idea of the next ten years being the Linux decade. But it won't help Applix. Just as "Borg" (MS) originally built Word for Jobs and Apple, but ultimately became the dominant word processor in the DOS/Win environment (over WordPerfect) look to see Excel (also, originally for Apple only) port to Linux very soon, ..maybe under a different name (Utools! << "older Unix-type operating systems" (never say Linux)). As far as buying products/apps for your system, if games will run on it, they will come. Just today, a buddy called me about Linux, and asked me about games right away. If most people are like me, you buy these apps, but other than spreadsheet/WP, you RARELY use them, wouldn't miss them (never made a greeting card...YET). My latest Pentium II machine..predicated on running certain GAMES and looking good. Word processing?? A 386 shows no loss of performance during WP compared to a Pentium II (unless you got a novel going..). Just like Applix and their "next great thing"...SHELF. Yea, great to have graphs, but ask anyone who has gone through the "graph cycle" at work. Ultimately, they are worthless, even dangerous, because they distort. Management inevitably gets rid of them for day-to-day, week-to-week reporting. (<insert OLAP irony statement here>) Annual reports..okay..otherwise NO GRAPHS. Especially ^&!@#%# pie charts!!