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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular!
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:28:43 +0100
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:21:06 +0200, Thomas L�cke <tl@ada-dk.org> wrote:

>I've bought the software.
>I've paid monthly service/support-fees since day one.
>I've paid for numerous new features.
>
>Never once has the vendor told me "By the way Thomas, please note that
>in a few years we'll stop supporting this product". Or something
>similar.
>
>Open source would've solved my problem. Open source would've made sure
>that my 17 employees could count on still having a job in the near
>future.

It still might.

I have been quite impressed by recent versions of Wine, (1.3 and up) and its
improving ability to run Windows software that my Windows machine can't. 
(Admittedly, I haven't upgraded it to XP yet...)

Have you tried it as a way of keeping your application alive?

- Brian