As long as Kylix interfaces with decent SQL databases such as DB2 [which is said to be very good], Oracle, and Advantage, you are gaining NOT to be using Paradox.
Strike 1:
I didn't know they existed. I imagine not many others did either.
Strike 2:
Now that they have decided not to exist, they screw up the announcement:
"Dear Users,
On August 15th, Critical
Path will shutting down
the RemarQ.com web
site."
Read carefully, we see that while the announcement was short, it was also bad grammer.
=========
"If our products failed as often as Windows 95, we would have been
out of business long ago," says Howard Selland, president of
Aeroquip Corp., a Maumee, Ohio, automotive supplier.
Lexmark? It is a company spun off from IBM, and for [I think] 5 years had rights to use the IBM name on printers if it wanted to. That time is past. But they were spun off, and have NOTHING to do with IBM whatsoever. Therefore, IBM cannot influence them at all.
I know everyone must think that the attendance here was poor.
But I recently attended a 'Big Day' show by Microsoft, which was basically an intro/feature show/demo for Win2k. And let me tell you, attendance was *way* down from 'Big Day' shows from previous years in the same city. There were perhaps 50-60 folks at this one. And I was a transient. It was dead ass boring and I left after perhaps less than an hour.
Previous shows at the same city might have netted 200 or so attendance. So I don't think I'd attribute the attendance to some Linux phenomenon.
FWIW, I am learning and testing Samba. I currently have a Linux machine with DNS, DHCP, Samba and other stuff running.
The OS/2 Warp 4 machine is used for printing and internet access [hey, it is virus *proof*]
I have two linux machines running Samba. Each has the OS/2 printer connected so they can print. But as an experiment I *re-shared* that same printer connection from Samba on the Linux machine back out as if it were actually on the Linux machine.
Then with an NT laptop, connected to the printer share on Samba/linux [which is really the OS/2 printer] and successfully printed. Pretty cool, and could be used to get around some problems [like if the OS/2 machine is on Token ring (it is...) and other machines are on ethernet.]
I think drives can be re-shared like this too, and in fact think I did that too.
If you set the: Domain = IBMPEERS
in \ibmlan\ibmlan.ini on the OS/2 machine
instead to the domain used by the NT and Samba machines, then everyone can browse everything.
You also *must* set up the machine to use netbios over TCPIP.
Samba is pretty useful. I think Samba/Linux will make a great server.
Would it be too much to ask for IBM to make this version of Netscape more generally available...Please...
It might indeed be possible, as the version of Netscape for OS/2 [which I am using here] is a wholly collaborative effort between IBM and Netscape; even to the degree that all versions of it are downloaded from IBM rather than Netscape.
I lived Geoworks for many years, as I was one of only a handful of beta testers covering a span of several years.
Geoworks was just simply wonderful for its time. It provided [within Geoworks] true pre-emptive multitasking and ran on machines will small memory and CPU. I even ran it successfully [albeit slowly] on an original IBM PC 8088, 640K ram, and 20 MB hard disk, monochrome monitor. And I could still prove it since I still have that PC in storage and still have Geoworks.
It was so very amazing, and I still use Geowrite now and then, even though I have all the latest stuff on hand [Lotus Wordpro, Wordperfect 8, and MS Word].
Geoworks and Geowrite scream on todays hardware and it takes virtually no hard disk space compared to today's software. A complete install of Geoworks including the applications was 10mb. I've seen NT registry sizes [yah, the size of the registry db itself] in excess of 30-40 mb.
And the Geowrite application, which includeing graphical tools [even bezier tools] was a mere 90 kilobytes. What system files needed to go with it were shared with all the other applications.
So what happended to Geoworks? What did they do wrong? Well, nothing really. Like OS/2, and others, Geoworks did NOT have a chance to penetrate the OS market against the MS monopoly machine. They were MicroSquished [TM].
In a private conversation with one of the Geoworks staff back when I was beta testing, the statement was made by him that he figured there was a 50/50 chance they would be 'MicroSquished'. In looking back on it, and now knowing even more than I did then due to the DOJ and Caldera lawsuits, the odds against them were really much worse. They had hardly a chance.
================= Is Microsoft a Tiger?
There once was a lady from Niger Who smiled as she rode on a Tiger They returned from the ride With the lady inside And the smile on the face of the Tiger.
I don't actually know, as I haven't loaded or run either the beta or gold code.
However, the claim is [also] that there is not an OS/2 4.6x version of the client, even though they made clients for OS/2 previously.
Well, as it turns out, you can copy the OS/2 server code to hard disk, edit a text file, and install will ask if you want to install the client or server.
That *still* doesn't quite get it though. After the install, you have to add a line to the notes.ini file to get it to come up. And it does.
I use 4.61 for OS/2 right alongside the Windows version and really can't tell a difference. If there is any, it would have to be in some of the database development areas.
I don't know about an OS/2 Notes 5.x client, as we are not using that version yet.
The point is though, a client for linux may exist, but it is not supported or beta tested.
Penfield Jackson proves it!!! The judge in his 'Findings of Fact' proves in 206 pages exactly why IE is even in the picture. Without illegal means, which cover a gamut of angles that it takes a mathemmatician to count, IE would not even be on the radar screen.
With the evidence brought forth in that document, I just don't care what IE is like. I consider it and Microsoft evil. And the judge has proven it.
For most users, the difference between IE and NS is negligible anyway. Even in corporations, where I work, web pages must or should be written to allow that older versions of browsers might be used. Upgrading 20,000 user for instance, is not a perfect process.
And if corporate web pages are used on the internet, you can guarantee that a lot of users are using older browsers.
So I think the point that IE might be perceived to be ahead in some way [but gotten illegally] is a moot point if you look at reality.
The only fair thing as far as the court goes and IE/Netscape/Other brosers go is to give Microsoft a penalty. Ten yards back like in football.
I'd do a number of things. Probably just take IE away from Microsoft completely, and not let them bundle any browser. Force the freeze of IE in versions and features. Allow only for bug fixes and fixing of security holes. If browsers are bundled, let them be bundled by including a CD with a choice of competing browsers, but not include IE. Make IE cost some real money [at least $30-40] while others are free or lesser cost.
What you are arguing here is that IE got ahead. But the real point is that is was done illegally, and there should be a heavy penalty and compensation for the victims, which include Netscape, Opera, etc, and the consumer.
I do *NOT* think that that should be the end of the punishment handed to Microsoft either. Only just one tiny aspect. It does not cover the damage done to other software and companies like DRDOS, OS/2, Apple Mac, Novell, Lotus [Smartsuite and Notes], Wordperfect, Corel, Java, Sun, and many many more.
In my opinion, AOL responded to Microsoft's move simply because they *know* that Microsoft never uses open source or open *anything* unless they are not in control. They *will* use it to *gain* control, and then close it tighter than AOL or anyone else ever tried. AOL did in fact have the info needed to access their messenger until the Microsoft move, which they [and I agree] has to be considered hostile, with the end result desired by Microsoft no doubt being total control.
Slashdot Mirror
As long as Kylix interfaces with decent SQL databases such as DB2 [which is said to be very good], Oracle, and Advantage, you are gaining NOT to be using Paradox.
I didn't know they existed. I imagine not many others did either.
Strike 2:
Now that they have decided not to exist, they screw up the announcement:
"Dear Users,
On August 15th, Critical
Path will shutting down
the RemarQ.com web
site."
Read carefully, we see that while the announcement was short, it was also bad grammer.
=========
"If our products failed as often as Windows 95, we would have been out of business long ago," says Howard Selland, president of Aeroquip Corp., a Maumee, Ohio, automotive supplier.
Lexmark? It is a company spun off from IBM, and for [I think] 5 years had rights to use the IBM name on printers if it wanted to. That time is past. But they were spun off, and have NOTHING to do with IBM whatsoever. Therefore, IBM cannot influence them at all.
But I recently attended a 'Big Day' show by Microsoft, which was basically an intro/feature show/demo for Win2k. And let me tell you, attendance was *way* down from 'Big Day' shows from previous years in the same city. There were perhaps 50-60 folks at this one. And I was a transient. It was dead ass boring and I left after perhaps less than an hour.
Previous shows at the same city might have netted 200 or so attendance. So I don't think I'd attribute the attendance to some Linux phenomenon.
Works fine in Netscape 4.61 for OS/2
The OS/2 Warp 4 machine is used for printing and internet access [hey, it is virus *proof*]
I have two linux machines running Samba. Each has the OS/2 printer connected so they can print. But as an experiment I *re-shared* that same printer connection from Samba on the Linux machine back out as if it were actually on the Linux machine.
Then with an NT laptop, connected to the printer share on Samba/linux [which is really the OS/2 printer] and successfully printed. Pretty cool, and could be used to get around some problems [like if the OS/2 machine is on Token ring (it is...) and other machines are on ethernet.]
I think drives can be re-shared like this too, and in fact think I did that too.
If you set the:
Domain = IBMPEERS
in \ibmlan\ibmlan.ini
on the OS/2 machine
instead to the domain used by the NT and Samba machines, then everyone can browse everything.
You also *must* set up the machine to use netbios over TCPIP.
Samba is pretty useful. I think Samba/Linux will make a great server.
That was the 2nd site in 2 days with that same problem, and both were NT4-IIS.
Methinks I would recommend the market leader, Apache
It might indeed be possible, as the version of Netscape for OS/2 [which I am using here] is a wholly collaborative effort between IBM and Netscape; even to the degree that all versions of it are downloaded from IBM rather than Netscape.
I lived Geoworks for many years, as I was one of only a handful of beta testers covering a span of several years.
Geoworks was just simply wonderful for its time. It provided [within Geoworks] true pre-emptive multitasking and ran on machines will small memory and CPU. I even ran it successfully [albeit slowly] on an original IBM PC 8088, 640K ram, and 20 MB hard disk, monochrome monitor. And I could still prove it since I still have that PC in storage and still have Geoworks.
It was so very amazing, and I still use Geowrite now and then, even though I have all the latest stuff on hand [Lotus Wordpro, Wordperfect 8, and MS Word].
Geoworks and Geowrite scream on todays hardware and it takes virtually no hard disk space compared to today's software. A complete install of Geoworks including the applications was 10mb. I've seen NT registry sizes [yah, the size of the registry db itself] in excess of 30-40 mb.
And the Geowrite application, which includeing graphical tools [even bezier tools] was a mere 90 kilobytes. What system files needed to go with it were shared with all the other applications.
So what happended to Geoworks? What did they do wrong? Well, nothing really. Like OS/2, and others, Geoworks did NOT have a chance to penetrate the OS market against the MS monopoly machine. They were MicroSquished [TM].
In a private conversation with one of the Geoworks staff back when I was beta testing, the statement was made by him that he figured there was a 50/50 chance they would be 'MicroSquished'. In looking back on it, and now knowing even more than I did then due to the DOJ and Caldera lawsuits, the odds against them were really much worse. They had hardly a chance.
=================
Is Microsoft a Tiger?
There once was a lady from Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a Tiger
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of the Tiger.
I don't actually know, as I haven't loaded or run either the beta or gold code.
However, the claim is [also] that there is not an OS/2 4.6x version of the client, even though they made clients for OS/2 previously.
Well, as it turns out, you can copy the OS/2 server code to hard disk, edit a text file, and install will ask if you want to install the client or server.
That *still* doesn't quite get it though. After the install, you have to add a line to the notes.ini file to get it to come up. And it does.
I use 4.61 for OS/2 right alongside the Windows version and really can't tell a difference. If there is any, it would have to be in some of the database development areas.
I don't know about an OS/2 Notes 5.x client, as we are not using that version yet.
The point is though, a client for linux may exist, but it is not supported or beta tested.
Penfield Jackson proves it!!!
The judge in his 'Findings of Fact' proves in 206 pages exactly why IE is even in the picture. Without illegal means, which cover a gamut of angles that it takes a mathemmatician to count, IE would not even be on the radar screen.
With the evidence brought forth in that document, I just don't care what IE is like. I consider it and Microsoft evil. And the judge has proven it.
For most users, the difference between IE and NS is negligible anyway. Even in corporations, where I work, web pages must or should be written to allow that older versions of browsers might be used. Upgrading 20,000 user for instance, is not a perfect process.
And if corporate web pages are used on the internet, you can guarantee that a lot of users are using older browsers.
So I think the point that IE might be perceived to be ahead in some way [but gotten illegally] is a moot point if you look at reality.
The only fair thing as far as the court goes and IE/Netscape/Other brosers go is to give Microsoft a penalty. Ten yards back like in football.
I'd do a number of things. Probably just take IE away from Microsoft completely, and not let them bundle any browser. Force the freeze of IE in versions and features. Allow only for bug fixes and fixing of security holes. If browsers are bundled, let them be bundled by including a CD with a choice of competing browsers, but not include IE. Make IE cost some real money [at least $30-40] while others are free or lesser cost.
What you are arguing here is that IE got ahead. But the real point is that is was done illegally, and there should be a heavy penalty and compensation for the victims, which include Netscape, Opera, etc, and the consumer.
I do *NOT* think that that should be the end of the punishment handed to Microsoft either. Only just one tiny aspect. It does not cover the damage done to other software and companies like DRDOS, OS/2, Apple Mac, Novell, Lotus [Smartsuite and Notes], Wordperfect, Corel, Java, Sun, and many many more.
In my opinion, AOL responded to Microsoft's move simply because they *know* that Microsoft never uses open source or open *anything* unless they are not in control. They *will* use it to *gain* control, and then close it tighter than AOL or anyone else ever tried. AOL did in fact have the info needed to access their messenger until the Microsoft move, which they [and I agree] has to be considered hostile, with the end result desired by Microsoft no doubt being total control.