Hi, ** M$ nooo way . W2K noooooo , Yep :-) Win2k. It's their best offering yet - but still miles off something stable, affordable, and well designed. ** The only way I can fight back is to vote with my $$$$$s , There are other ways. The main one is to find lots of vulnerabilities in the OS and then exploit them. Also lots of bad press does good (such as "We bought Linux because it's free and fast and dropped Windows because it's a primitive dog turd"). Also, physical violence from the extremes of pie chucking (he he) and crowbar+Bill's head might get a result. Problem is, that you'd have to kill them all off otherwise like bacteria, they will divide and conquer again... Injecting a few saboteurs into Microsoft would be cool. ** we are moving to linux with ALL NEW SYSTEMS while the current ** two M$ systems dual boot and are used to suport whats needed on M$ while we ** move apps to linux as they come avialable. I'd love to do that, but we have 800 Windows 98 PC's (help me!!!). We also have a whole pile of NT servers. Even (dare I say it), the firewall and proxy servers are NT (with SP3 if I remember). I'm still wearing my SuSE T-Shirt and poking various IS staff on a daily basis. Hopefully soon... ** Right now Im waiting for an ** affordable payroll app on linux and need to move a home built accounts ** ** [ snip ] ** ** accounts payable I could do in paradox with WPO2000 under wine if needed. Good luck. I use perl scripts to manage my home accounts (which sync nicely with my Palm V :-). Generates nice monthly and yearly reports (although I cant do a year report because I only wrote it 3 months ago). My main problem is that without Windows, I cannot play Homeworld (rather sadly, the main reason I exist on this planet)... ----------------------------------------------------------- Chris Smith IS Dept - Raytheon Systems Limited [chris.smith@raytheon.co.uk] +44 1279 407 103 ----------------------------------------------------------- Programmers are busy writing the next best idiot proof software. The universe, in the meantine, is busy making the next best idiot. The universe is winning... =========================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/