From: DPH <kgclg15@kg.hsanet.net>
Subject: Re: urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the enterprise
Date: 2000/09/26
Date: 2000-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39D1520A.2BDE2718@kg.hsanet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8qmkfo$blb$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article <39BE218D.B26DF3FD@kg.hsanet.net>,
> rally2xs@compuserve.com wrote:
>
> > Our project has considered moving to the PC environment for
> > these reasons.
>
> There are many legitimate reasons to consider using PC's not
> least of which is price performance,
Yes, they're pretty cheap.
> however, despite what
> Microsoft might like you to think, moving to PC's does not
> necessarily mean moving to NT.
>
> GNAT currently supports the following operating systems on PC's
>
> Linux
> SCO Unix
> Solaris x86
> OS/2
> Lynx
>
> and yes
>
> NT
>
> in addition, there are volunteer ports for some other x86
> OS's including netbsd and freebsd.
>
> So you still have quite a bit of choice :-)
Don't think too many of the folks will want give up Microsoft Office
when their desktop PC is converted to Linux or Unix or whatever, nor
spend the extra time necessary to get familiar with whatever utilities
are used to do the common stuff like packing and unpacking zip files,
running streaming audio and video, etc. Also, Microsoft Outlook is the
_official corporate_ e-mail program, so rebooting periodically to
download e-mail would be a drag.
No, only NT or W2000 would really make sense for us in our present
environment, unless we were going to buy standalone machines to boot to
Unix and leave running, just for developonig software. But then there
goes the $$$ savings when compared with just using the current PC.
Dave Head
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-12 18:27 urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the enterprise DC
2000-09-13 0:00 ` bill
2000-09-12 0:00 ` DPH
2000-09-25 4:31 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-25 0:00 ` peter
2000-09-26 0:00 ` DPH [this message]
2000-09-26 20:55 ` Chris Miller
2000-09-26 0:00 ` nospam
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-27 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-27 0:00 ` nospam
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Michael S. Simpson
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Greg Gorman
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