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On Tue, 9 May 1995, Yukon Kid wrote:

> In one of the comp.text.sgml posts you wrote ..
>  |Anybody been watching what is happening to the Linux market lately?

> I must get a new machine right now, so Linux looks really good.
> Except, I have old commercial applications (and some new ones, and
> some ones stuck on SPARC Motif OS 4.1.3) that I need to run right 
> away.  So I buy a new SPARC %^(

Get the Slackware distribution.  Almost everything from 4.1.3 (except 
mailtool) is in there, get a big hard disk and install all of the 
contributed software.  If you had to buy it by the piece at CompUSA, you 
would have to spend about $10,000 for the 8,000 applications that are
included.

If you really like it, get the "support package" ($100 for 4 quarterly
updates).  What you don't get is a good project manager (but you can make
your own custom version with ATK), and a network manager (chemera offers
one).  The latest on the net is that there are 6 relational databases,
most of whom offer commercial "Professional" editions.It's a bit like
comparing Works to Microsoft Office.  The "Professional" has all the 
"wizards and cue-cards".  The generic just have info files.

> Right?  I guess it'll take awhile ..
> -jme
> --
> John Eadie  _COMPUTING ART Inc_
>   klee wyck Cottage, 120 Keith Road, West Vancouver BC  V7T 1L3
>    # yukon@c-art.com #  416.287.6811 -or- 604.922.5104  Fax 604.922.5194
>  
> `The monks who did not buy printing presses are now making wine.  In the
> years ahead, some of us will make the same choice'  Steven Cherry, ELSEVIER
> 

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
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	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.




From rballard@cnj.digex.net Thu May 11 21:02:38 1995