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The prolific Hetz Ben Hamo sent in the attached press release, and plea for writings to Insignia. As we have heard some bigger companies have begun a flirtation with the wonderful world of Linux. But Insignia as a company, and as others have shown, they need to know that there is a paying market there. So, if you are interested in SoftWindows for Linux, read below to find out how to help.

Folks, this is a transcript of a message from an internal IBM Linux forum. Yes, there are some folks at IBM playing with Linux (like me for example).

A fellow IBMer phoned Insignia customer service and spoke with "Kyle". He inquired about a possible Linux port. He was told that they are talking to Red Hat and have two different port methodologies - an easy one/poor performance and a hard one/good performance.

They are currently "TRACKING REQUESTS" to customer service to determine market size. Everyone who has a real business case for or is otherwise seriously interested in a native Linux port is encouraged to email unixcs@insignia.com and
a) request a port be made,
b) (important!) identify sound business reasons why you want it and why it would be a good strategic move, and
c) TELL THEM THAT YOU WOULD PAY $$$ FOR IT (as they are concerned that nobody wants to pay for products on a freeware system).

Try citing examples like Wabi purchases and explain that we are running out of 16bit code, and Corel WordPerfect Linux/7 from Corel/Software Development Corporation. Encourage this to be sent out to the public at large so all people who are really interested in a native port can write Insignia. This port would be the single most effective method of increasing Linux market share. We can have native apps later - right now we need to run everybody else's W95 apps. This could be what we have been waiting for!!!!!!

Dave Blondell writes "Insignia Solutions the people that make Softwindows for the Mac, has come out with Softwindows95 for Unix. For more info take a look at this site. At present only HP-UX 10.20, Sun Solaris 2.5, SunOS 4.1.4 and IBM AIX 4.1 are supported. "

Dave Blondell writes "Insignia Solutions the people that make Softwindows for the Mac, has come out with Softwindows95 for Unix. For more info take a look at this site. At present only HP-UX 10.20, Sun Solaris 2.5, SunOS 4.1.4 and IBM AIX 4.1 are supported. "