At school for mp3 streaming we set up a P2 350Mhz with 64mb ram and installed NT on it and it runs perfectly. Its up for months at a time unless we upgrade anything hardware like a hard drive, it never crashes, and is usually serving 100-200 connections at a time through shoutcast mp3 streamer (www.shoutcast.com). As much as the linux community would like to believe that NT is as unstable as Win95/98, it will never crash on you and is extremely stable and efficient.
But they are under no obligation to even put this program under any license that involves open source. They could just as well have made it closed source. They're obviously just trying to support linux, theres no real profit in it for them.
If i were Corel, I would have a closed source beta if i damn wanted to. I can't imagine that this is the most profitable package of software they've ever made, and if i started hearing bitching from the community i was trying to support and they turned against me for on small thing i would drop the entire program.
Everyone here seems to classify all MS products as unreliable just because windows 95/98 is, but you always forget NT. Thousands of companies like Boeing and parts of GM use is everyday and obviously find it very reliable.
I was referring to ms office for word, excel and the db...nt for the OS and then the tens of thousands of other third party products avaivable like quick books and so on which mostly arent available to linux.
So you want a business computer with a WIDE variety of business software options including a database that you can connect with the web...Did somebody say Microsoft Windows NT? Hell no, and why? Because all you people are too proud and have the words 'open source' stuck up your ass too far to get it out. You cant see that if you just went with Microsoft instead of an open source option it will in the end be far more cost effective. If you want to start a business you have to get out of the open source mentality and get what will be the best option for business. Get what tens of thousands of companies around the world rely on to get the edge on the competitor, that being Microsoft products. You can say a lot of things about them, but not that they dont know how to do business and make business software. If you cant do that then you're just killing your company before it even gets a chance to start up and you might as well not even go any further.
As much as the linux community loves open source, the windows community doesnt need it. As a programmer myself I've never needed or wished i had the source to windows for anything. Microsoft gives you everything you need to do anything you want to with windows and unlike linux (no offense), windows is supported by 20,000 full time employees with bug fixes and service packs coming out every month instead of me manually having to tweak the OS. With all this i've never wished windows was open source.
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At school for mp3 streaming we set up a P2 350Mhz with 64mb ram and installed NT on it and it runs perfectly. Its up for months at a time unless we upgrade anything hardware like a hard drive, it never crashes, and is usually serving 100-200 connections at a time through shoutcast mp3 streamer (www.shoutcast.com). As much as the linux community would like to believe that NT is as unstable as Win95/98, it will never crash on you and is extremely stable and efficient.
But they are under no obligation to even put this program under any license that involves open source. They could just as well have made it closed source. They're obviously just trying to support linux, theres no real profit in it for them.
If i were Corel, I would have a closed source beta if i damn wanted to. I can't imagine that this is the most profitable package of software they've ever made, and if i started hearing bitching from the community i was trying to support and they turned against me for on small thing i would drop the entire program.
Everyone here seems to classify all MS products as unreliable just because windows 95/98 is, but you always forget NT. Thousands of companies like Boeing and parts of GM use is everyday and obviously find it very reliable.
I was referring to ms office for word, excel and the db...nt for the OS and then the tens of thousands of other third party products avaivable like quick books and so on which mostly arent available to linux.
So you want a business computer with a WIDE variety of business software options including a database that you can connect with the web...Did somebody say Microsoft Windows NT? Hell no, and why? Because all you people are too proud and have the words 'open source' stuck up your ass too far to get it out. You cant see that if you just went with Microsoft instead of an open source option it will in the end be far more cost effective. If you want to start a business you have to get out of the open source mentality and get what will be the best option for business. Get what tens of thousands of companies around the world rely on to get the edge on the competitor, that being Microsoft products. You can say a lot of things about them, but not that they dont know how to do business and make business software. If you cant do that then you're just killing your company before it even gets a chance to start up and you might as well not even go any further.
As much as the linux community loves open source, the windows community doesnt need it. As a programmer myself I've never needed or wished i had the source to windows for anything. Microsoft gives you everything you need to do anything you want to with windows and unlike linux (no offense), windows is supported by 20,000 full time employees with bug fixes and service packs coming out every month instead of me manually having to tweak the OS. With all this i've never wished windows was open source.