Re: NEWSFLASH: Oracle Technology breakthrough in Windows95/NT Networking!
FREEBSD RULES!!! In article <35212DC7.6D9D@yahoo.com>, gold_bag@yahoo.com writes: > A major breakthrough is announced - you can now run Windows95/NT > applications/programs 100% native mode from inside Linux Window!! > The research lab founded by 'Olivetti corporation' and 'Oracle > corporation' is offering the software at > this site - see http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ > > Using the 'VNC Virtual Network Computing' software, you run all > the Windows95/NT programs remotely on Windows95/NT box BUT display > locally inside the Linux box!! > > My strong advice to companies is to invest the "dollars" in > networking hardware like fast ethernet cards and do not burn out > dollars on operating system like windows 95/NT. > > Linux is a excellent Network computer, Network PC system. > Now, you can have ONLY ONE Windows NT for the entire company > and have LINUX on all the other PCs!! This idea saves the > company millions of dollars because -- > Cost of Linux per seat = $0 > Cost of Windows95 per seat = $289 ($90 for upgrade but must have 3.x) > Cost of WindowsNT per seat = $799 (server) $300 (workstation) > Users will not complain because they can still run all of their favorite > Windows95/NT programs like MS Word, Excel inside linux and at the > same time can also run Unix/Linux programs inside linux!!!! > > And combine VNC with SAMBA (which is included in Linux). Use samba to > mount linux disk partitions on Win95/NT as folders and vice versa!! > Linux is EXCELLENT "Fileserver" box for Windows95/NT! > > Another strong advice - migrate rapidly to platform independent > C++ Qt or JAVA!! Get java from Borland or Sun Micro and not from M$. > See Borland JBuilder at http://www.borland.com and C++ Qt > http://www.troll.no > > More about Linux - > MICROSOFT Windows 95 - LINUX ANALOGY LIST > =========================================== > LINUX (UNIX) is a 100% POSIX compliant operating system > -------------------------------------------------------- > 100% POSIX compliance is required by U.S. Govt. on OS > ------------------------------------------------------ > o Linux was awarded 'The BEST Network Operating system, 1997/98' by > InfoWorld computer magazine > o Movie 'Titanic' was made with Linux on digital alpha, graphics and > animations. > o Windows95, Windows NT fail the CRASH_OS_TEST programs and only Linux > passes. Linux scales much BETTER than NT on SMP boxes. > Linux runs MUCH faster than Windows95/NT > o Linux is created by YOU, repeat "YOU" created linux, Windows is > created by Microsoft and NOT by YOU and you do not any control on > window95/nt! > o Linux OS NEVER crashes!! Why? Because there is not even a minute > bug in the kernel source code. The kernel source code is reviewed > by millions of people on internet and it is 100% perfect! > > Linux applications are at : > http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html > > Note: Some of the packages listed below are commercial and others > are on the Linux cdrom. > > Microsoft Windows for linux : Linux has WABI, WINE, VNC packages which > runs most MS Windows 3.1, Win32 programs inside linux window! > With Linux, you can run on remote Window95/NT box every Win95/NT > programs and display on your local linux box inside Linux!! In > this way have ONLY ONE Windows95/NT box for the entire > company (saves money)!! Linux is a Network computer for > Windows95/NT!! Details see http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ > > MSDOS for linux : Linux has Dr. DOS from http://www.caldera.com which > runs most DOS programs inside a linux window!! > See also DosEmu (DOS-Emulator) package, XDosEmu and > FreeDOS from http://www.freedos.org/ > > Microsoft SQLserver (RDBMS Database) : Linux has these databases - > PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org > (see Database-PostgreSQL-HOWTO on cdrom) > Oracle RDBMS - see http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Oracle-HOWTO.html > Informix RDBMS - http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog/ifmxlinux.htm > MySQL - http://www.tcx.se (from Sweden) > Solid - http://www.solidtech.com (from Finland) > Addabas - http://www.adabas.com (from Germany) > YardSQL - http://www.yard.de (from Germany) > Empress - http://www.empress.com (from U.S.) > Interbase - http://www.interbase.com (from Borland Corp) > > Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets : Linux has TeaPot, WingZ and NeXS. > > Microsoft Win95 Desktop : Linux has KDE - http://www.kde.org > KDE desktop is IDENTICAL to Windows95 interface + good points > from OS/2 and Mac!! You MUST try KDE!! > Lesstiff - A industry standard Motif tool and Windows, > Afterstep, Windowmaker (NeXTstep-lookalike), > QVwm, fvwm95 (Win95-lookalike), amiwm (amiga), mlvwm (mac) etc. > > Microsoft Internet Web server: Linux has Apache, Roxen Challenger, > Netscape Fasttrack, Sun Microsystem's Java Web server. > > Microsoft Internet Explorer: Linux has Netscape browser/communicator, > LynX, > Kfm (KDE Filemanager), Mosaic, Amaya, Arena, Sun Microsystem Hotjava, > etc. > > Microsoft Windows95/NT network with Linux : Linux has SAMBA > (networking), > and Netware connectivity with MARS-NWE (networking). > > Microsoft Word : Linux has Wordperfect 7.0, LyX, xdvi, XWord, > Adobe Acrobat reader, FrameMaker, LaTex, SGML Tools, > Jade, JadeTex, Maxwell. > > Microsoft Office suite: Linux has StarOffice suite (from Germany), > ApplixWare office suites, Coreldraw suites, SGML, Jade. > > Microsoft Visual Basic: Linux has VisualTCL, SpecTCL > > Microsoft Visual C++ : Linux has QT application framework C++ QtEZ, > VIBE, Code Crusader, WipeOut, RHIDE, C-Forge > XWPE - X Windows programming environment, XEmacs, > Gnome, GNU C Compiler (C, C++, Objective-C) > > Microsoft Exchange (Mail server): Linux has Sendmail, qmail, smail, > exim, exmh package (mail-user-agent) > > Microsoft JAVA : Linux has Java IDE "FreeBuilder", JccWarrior, Wipeout, > Vibe, SunMicrosystem Java Workshop for Linux, SuperMojo, JForge, Emacs > JDE. > > Microsoft Mail/Lotus CCMAIL : Linux has ZMail(GUI), exmh, umt, > xfmail(GUI), > kmail, xmh, xcmail, soma, privtool, pine, etc.. > > Microsoft Scheduler/Personal productivity tools: See the Personal > productivity > Tools at http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html > > Microsoft Notepad/Wordpad : Linux has CRisp, vi, NEdit, Jed, EMACS, Joe, > Elvis and several hundreds more... on cdrom > > Microsoft Desktop Publishing : Linux has SGML tools, LaTex, Jade, > JadeTex, FrameMaker, Corel office, Applixware, StarOffice. > > Netscape Calendar Server: CyberScheduler from http://www.crosswind.com > > AutoCAD CAD package: Linux has AC3D package at > http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ac3d.html > > Adobe Photoshop : Linux has GIMP at http://www.gimp.org and also on > linux cdrom > http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html > > Intersolv PVCS (Source Code Control System): Linux has RCS and CVS SCCS. > > Progamming languages : Linux has C, C++, Java, Lisp, Fortran, Perl, > Python, Pascal, Intel X86 assembler, awk, sed, korn shell, zsh, > bash, tcsh, Tcl/Tk, Prolog, Rexx, Small