running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Tom Buskey]

Bill Sconce said:
>bscott at ntisys.com writes:
>
>>   As for the question of "Should they?", I think the potential
>> market for such emulation environments is good for the foreseeable
>> future.  Microsoft is going to be around for a long time (remember,
>> there are companies still running software written for IBM
>> mainframes designed in the 1960s!).  Even if everyone decides
>> to move to Linux tomorrow, it will take awhile for all that legacy
>> code to die off.  Personally, I think adoption of Linux will
>> continue to be a gradual affair -- not a stampede -- giving
>> products like Win4Lin and VMware a steady stream of new customers
>> for some time to come.
> 
>
>Good point, Ben.  I see that I should modify my view. 
>
>The "transition period", as we've been using the term, will go
>on indefinitely.  Mileage will still vary, and what "transition"
>means will be different for each individual user and each shop.

Microsoft helps this shorten this transition period a bit.  For 
instance, early version of LAN manager don't work well with NT file 
server.  

Does anyone remember the Word 95 <-> Word 97 transition?  Word 97 
couldn't write Word 95 docs.  So if one person in the office upgraded 
to '97 and traded lots of docs with others, eventually everyone else 
had to.



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