| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Jeff MacDonald <jeff(at)pgsql(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Most Advanced |
| Date: | 2000-02-15 21:18:31 |
| Message-ID: | 200002152118.QAA14970@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Actually, I think you might be looking at this wrong ... figure that Corel
> is putting resources into making WINE a viable "engine" to running
> Micro$loth applications ... WINE is open source.
>
> Now, which is better/easier? Re-code Wordperfect Office (one app) to run
> natively, or improve an open source application so that Linux/Unix can run
> any existing Micro$loth product? Which is cheaper in the long run?
>
> If they were starting WordPerfect from scratch, okay ... but how many
> hundreds of thousands of lines of Windoze specific code is in
> WP-Office? :)
I have never been very confident about emulation of any form. Also, if
Corel has Inprise and Corel Linux, you would think it would be worth
making the port to a _real_ operating system.
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