[openbeos] Re: Clipboard followup
- From: "Andy Satori" <dru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 12:17:26 -0400
*smirk*
Now there is the kind of incentive for me. When people started placing
$$ values on projects, they suddenly become an order of magnitude more
interesting :-)
Seriously though, I still maintain that you'll never carve out a niche
in the world until you implement full platform interoperability. To do
this you need things like Oracle Client software, SQL Server Client
tools, FrontPage Extension client support, Visual Source Safe support.
The OS needs users to support growth. You can focus on hardware
drivers, but without software that does things that are needed in the
business world, you'll always be relegated to obscurity, single
dimensional tasks. MS may be the enemy, but in order to establish into
their marketplace, you do have to implement a certain amount of
co-existance. For example, in my biggest contract right now, I spend 40
hours a week working in Windows doing tasks that I can do in BeOS, not
because the software doesn't exist, Pe, InSite, BeMail, GCC cover what I
need there. It's because I cannot communicate with the platforms I need
to. I cannot get the files and data from the servers because the client
tools don't exist. I could work around the hardware issues, but I don't
have the time to write these clients, most of which I would happily pony
up cash for simply because they would make it easier for me to work the
way I choose to.
Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Helmar Rudolph
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 11:49 AM
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Clipboard followup
>
>
>
> Sorry, forgot, but such a feature alone is worth $30-50 to
> me, so there's an incentive. ;)
>
> Helmar
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