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Compiling Under Wine
now3djp writes "Interesting article over on CodingStyle that demonstrates how I successfully eliminated wasted time maintaining an MS-Windows computer when I could build natively from my GNU computer! /. has followed other cross compilers in the past. This article is different because I used MS's own compiler! This allowed me to get on with real games porting; with only a proportional increase in compile time. Wine has really come a long way in supporting simple apps, let us hope it reaches a 1.0 soon."
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Well, even if its wordy, you did read it. For your information I CAN install oracle 8i in Red Hat 6.1. I have done it and dropped it because there were other problems. But it was not easy and you need a paid for tech support contract to do it - which I have.
On the other hand postgreSQL installed perfectly. Futhermore I haven't encountered any problems yet that require tech support. Go figure.
You don't need tech support for stuff that works you know. So how big is Oracle's tech support group?
To be frank, I think you missed the point. You can spend huge amounts of money on closed source software, and when you are done you will be owned by it. You will be owned because you need to walk away from your investment and your experiance and start all over unless you pay for the next upgrade.
So when you get to be say 45 years old how will you feel about having walked away from most of the work you did in your career and most of your experiance because this work is locked into closed source that a) no longer exists or b) has new licencing provisions that you can't live with or c) fell into disuse because the company that owns it went bankrupt or d) became obsolete because it wasn't maintained... just milked..? Should I go on?
How do you feel about paying a tech support contract for a product where the vendor has not allocated a single person for maintenance? And your company is investing over a million bux for development?