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    In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.990309173002.23517A-100000@toaster.roan.co.uk>,
    Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> wrote:
    >On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Florian Lohoff wrote:
    >What planet are you on?!? Have you the faintest clue how long
    >it takes the big vendors (like Informix and Oracle) to gear
    >up to port, QA and support a new platform? And then you have
    >to wait for the next tier of application software to be ported,
    >hoping that (a) the company still exists, (b) they care about
    >porting the code you want, (c) they aren't going to stiff you
    >for a load more money in the process.

    Not a problem with open-source applications.

    > Running, and *depending on* truely ancient programs is not
    >that uncommon!

    Not uncommon, but not to be encouraged either.

    --
    Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, zygob@corel.ca (work),
    zblaxell@furryterror.org (play). It's my opinion, I tell you! Mine! All MINE!
    Size of 'diff -Nurw [...] winehq corel' as of Wed Mar 10 12:14:00 EST 1999
    Lines/files: In 2058 / 29, Out 5773 / 59, Both 7821 / 85

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