Re: [ossig] Opposite of Wine ?

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 08:29, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote:
> Just read this link
>
> http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156587
>
> about Microsoft trying to get Unix- and Linux-programs running on Windows.
> It might come with Longhorn, once they can replace everything GPL-related.
>
> "Jason Zions, a solutions architect at Microsoft, said there are
> development versions [..]
>  that enable a single process to run code both from Windows and Unix
> libraries."
>
> This would really be a killer-app; wouldn't it ?
>
> Uwe

firstly, Don't we already have cygwin for that already? and it has been around 
for a long time. How many people you know opt for Windows 2000 with cygwin 
instead of Linux/BSD ?

2nd, I believe these are for people who generally not willing or not going to 
run Linux/unix/bsd in the first place.  What, you perhaps get it probably 
some people run a few application like postgresql which was never really 
ported to windows in the first place.  Joe win admin may like it because it 
make things easier for him but people who are used to unix would probably run 
some flavours of Linux.  Honestly, I am so used to forward slash and back 
slash seems counter intuitive. 


while I feel this is interesting but it still doesn't make any sense for me 
personally to deploy this within organization I work in.  Windows server 
license still a hell lot more expensive than linux. Further more, I have to 
make too many adjustment to existing network configuration, just to get 
perhaps a few nice gui, risk of viruses etc.... I have to relearn how to do 
quite a few things I normally do it on linux/bsd... and If I really need or 
want something like active directory instead of openldap, wouldn't running 
novell''s on linux be a better replacement?


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