I disagree, My wife loves it. Linspire that is. Looks like Win2k, acts like Win2k, but much faster & stable. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 4:04 PM To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows, will rule in the next 8 years in the market On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:49:29 +0000, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:04:44 -0500, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >=20 > Desktops are a different story. >=20 Amen to that. Linux has a long road ahead before becoming a viable desktop. As a desktop, windows works out of the box, Linux doesn't. The technically savvy user can make it work, but the average user can't, and should not have to. My std argument: try opening WMV, MPEG and quicktime in your email on linux (I'm using evolution). It's easy to setup, once you find out how. The problem is twofold: it is not easy to discover how to set it up, and you should not have to. --=20 Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l