[dba-Tech] Xandros running MS Office?

Hi William

> ...Linux is open source gustav ...Xandros wants $89 for its implementation
> ...Xandros either adds value via their cross-Windows code or wants me to pay
> for what I can otherwise get for free ...if they actually add value to
> justify an $89 price, who besides Xandros is supporting their
> implementation? ...ergo, its a proprietary implementation of Linux :(

Ahh, William, you know better - it's an implementation ... proprietary is
a difficult word to append to Linux.

> ...as for your comments re IBM, you'd best update your news source ...IBM
> backed WWWAAAAAAYYYY off that statement the very next day saying it was only
> a desired objective, had no force de jure, and no division even had such a
> move on the planning board ...the very next day Forrester Research released
> a study showing that despite the hype, its survey of corporate IT showed
> less than 5% of  firms even had a plan to explore open source in the next
> five years :(

Sorry, haven't heard of that.

> ...in other words, just like with Sun's alleged conversion to Open Source,
> the Linux community hyped something that is at least as bad as the vapor
> ware we're used to from MS ...if Linux is to gain any credibility in the
> real world as a viable business/consumer desktop OS, it has to stop this
> continual spin and start delivering ...as in Open Office ...I put it on a
> test system a few months back and came away angry at wasting so much time on
> something with less functionality and far more bugs than the old MS Works :(

It seems like the results of your reviews often are quite different
from those of others.

/gustav


>> Linux proprietary ... that was new, William.