Re: Problem: Informix 5.0 SE on Linux with WIN Clients
Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > [Message snipped] > Todd Graham Lewis Linux tlewis@mindspring.net > "It's still ludicrous that nobody's ever made a run at us by making UNIX > a popular platform on PCs. It's almost too late now." -- Steve Balmer > "It is too late." -- Bill Gates _Newsweek_, 6/23/97, p. 82 Its not ludicrous- he was misinformed. A company called Fortune tried to market a version of Interactive Unix on their platform. It sucked, and the corporate folks wondered why. It was complex, ugly and awkward. The investors thought they had the greatest thing since sliced bread, but they counted on their technical people too much: they didn't actually TRY the thing first. There are a couple of obvious problems putting Unix on the desktop: 1. Desktop environments must be simple to operate and maintain. The masses are busy doing other things (doctors, lawyers, teachers, musical performers) to learn all the admittedly cryptic goodies of Unix. 2. Desktop environments aren't places where people *expect* the power of Unix. Most folks aren't prepared for it. The manuals were written by, for, and of hackers, FCOL. "Normal folks" aren't gonna go for it. Linux is changing all that. If the GUI folks beefed up their X frontend and setup programs, Win95 would be in real danger. Aye? Brian /// ( o o ) +------------------------oOo--(_*_)--oOo-----------------------------+ | Brian Fahrlander kilroy@Dynasty.net| | Freelance Consultant Evansville, Indiana| +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ooO Ooo Did you know: - There's a new law that makes it LEGAL for the federal government to inspect your bank records without a warrant? - The flood relief bill for the Mississippi river flood carried a rider to give Maxine Water's constituants $100 each for "grooming". Maxine's district is in LA, far from the muddy Mississip. Where were the democrats crying for a "clean" bill, then? Politics as usual, democratic style. Who said "character doesn't matter"?