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Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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Wed, 8 Dec 1999 06:18:46 GMT
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
That said, if you have a *nix box, it's still better than Office on a
separate and/or dualboot NT/9x box. Whether it's better than Office on
NT on VMWare on *nix is a matter for (quite lively, I might add)
debate.

With enough memory (all my machines have at least 256, and that's
enough) I'd rather run Linux and VMWare+NT and Office 2000 than
Linux and StarOffice any day.

Maybe if S.O. didn't suck I would feel differently, but I'll put up
with the lags and performance hit of VMWare if that means I don't
have to use Star Office.

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(...) Well, noting that I'm speaking mostly as a channel for other people since I have little experience myself: It leaks memory worse than Netscape 4, it crashes more often than Win98, and the user interface sucks (according to those who're forced (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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