NEWSFLASH: Oracle Technology breakthrough in Windows95/NT Networking!

From: <gold_bag_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 1998/03/31
Message-ID: <35212DC7.6D9D@yahoo.com>

A major breakthrough is announced - you can now run Windows95/NT applications/programs 100% native mode from inside Linux Window!! The research lab founded by 'Olivetti corporation' and 'Oracle corporation' is offering the software at this site - see http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/

Using the 'VNC Virtual Network Computing' software, you run all the Windows95/NT programs remotely on Windows95/NT box BUT display locally inside the Linux box!!

My strong advice to companies is to invest the "dollars" in networking hardware like fast ethernet cards and do not burn out dollars on operating system like windows 95/NT.

Linux is a excellent Network computer, Network PC system. Now, you can have ONLY ONE Windows NT for the entire company and have LINUX on all the other PCs!! This idea saves the company millions of dollars because --

	Cost of Linux per seat = $0
	Cost of Windows95 per seat = $289 ($90 for upgrade but must have 3.x)
	Cost of WindowsNT per seat = $799 (server) $300 (workstation)

Users will not complain because they can still run all of their favorite Windows95/NT programs like MS Word, Excel inside linux and at the same time can also run Unix/Linux programs inside linux!!!!

And combine VNC with SAMBA (which is included in Linux). Use samba to mount linux disk partitions on Win95/NT as folders and vice versa!! Linux is EXCELLENT "Fileserver" box for Windows95/NT!

Another strong advice - migrate rapidly to platform independent C++ Qt or JAVA!! Get java from Borland or Sun Micro and not from M$. See Borland JBuilder at http://www.borland.com and C++ Qt http://www.troll.no

More about Linux -

		MICROSOFT Windows 95 - LINUX ANALOGY LIST
	       ===========================================
	LINUX (UNIX) is a 100% POSIX compliant operating system 
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	100% POSIX compliance is required by U.S. Govt. on OS
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o Linux was awarded 'The BEST Network Operating system, 1997/98' by   InfoWorld computer magazine
o Movie 'Titanic' was made with Linux on digital alpha, graphics and animations.
o Windows95, Windows NT fail the CRASH_OS_TEST programs and only Linux   passes. Linux scales much BETTER than NT on SMP boxes.   Linux runs MUCH faster than Windows95/NT o Linux is created by YOU, repeat "YOU" created linux, Windows is   created by Microsoft and NOT by YOU and you do not any control on   window95/nt!
o Linux OS NEVER crashes!! Why? Because there is not even a minute   bug in the kernel source code. The kernel source code is reviewed   by millions of people on internet and it is 100% perfect!

Linux applications are at :

        http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html

Note: Some of the packages listed below are commercial and others  are on the Linux cdrom.

Microsoft Windows for linux : Linux has WABI, WINE, VNC packages which

	runs most MS Windows 3.1, Win32 programs inside linux window!
	With Linux, you can run on remote Window95/NT box every Win95/NT
	programs and display on your local linux box inside Linux!! In 
	this way have ONLY ONE Windows95/NT box for the entire 
	company (saves money)!! Linux is a Network computer for 
	Windows95/NT!! Details see http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/

MSDOS for linux : Linux has Dr. DOS from http://www.caldera.com which
	runs most DOS programs inside a linux window!! 
	See also DosEmu (DOS-Emulator) package, XDosEmu and 
	FreeDOS from http://www.freedos.org/

Microsoft SQLserver (RDBMS Database) : Linux has these databases - 
	PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org 
	(see Database-PostgreSQL-HOWTO on cdrom)
	Oracle RDBMS - see http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Oracle-HOWTO.html
	Informix RDBMS - http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog/ifmxlinux.htm
	MySQL - http://www.tcx.se  (from Sweden)
	Solid - http://www.solidtech.com  (from Finland)
	Addabas - http://www.adabas.com (from Germany)
	YardSQL - http://www.yard.de (from Germany)
	Empress - http://www.empress.com (from U.S.)
	Interbase - http://www.interbase.com (from Borland Corp)

Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets : Linux has TeaPot, WingZ and NeXS.

Microsoft Win95 Desktop : Linux has KDE - http://www.kde.org

	KDE desktop is IDENTICAL to Windows95 interface + good points
 	from OS/2 and Mac!! You MUST try KDE!!
	Lesstiff - A industry standard Motif tool and Windows,
	Afterstep, Windowmaker (NeXTstep-lookalike),
	QVwm, fvwm95 (Win95-lookalike), amiwm (amiga), mlvwm (mac) etc.

Microsoft Internet Web server: Linux has Apache, Roxen Challenger, 
	Netscape Fasttrack, Sun Microsystem's Java Web server.

Microsoft Internet Explorer: Linux has Netscape browser/communicator, LynX,

        Kfm (KDE Filemanager), Mosaic, Amaya, Arena, Sun Microsystem Hotjava, etc.

Microsoft Windows95/NT network with Linux : Linux has SAMBA (networking),

        and Netware connectivity with MARS-NWE (networking).

Microsoft Word : Linux has Wordperfect 7.0, LyX, xdvi, XWord,

	Adobe Acrobat reader, FrameMaker, LaTex, SGML Tools,
	Jade, JadeTex, Maxwell.

Microsoft Office suite: Linux has StarOffice suite (from Germany), 
	ApplixWare office suites, Coreldraw suites, SGML, Jade. 

Microsoft Visual Basic: Linux has VisualTCL, SpecTCL

Microsoft Visual C++ : Linux has QT application framework C++ QtEZ,

	VIBE, Code Crusader, WipeOut, RHIDE, C-Forge
	XWPE - X Windows programming environment, XEmacs,
	Gnome, GNU C Compiler (C, C++, Objective-C) 

Microsoft Exchange (Mail server): Linux has Sendmail, qmail, smail,
	exim, exmh package (mail-user-agent)

Microsoft JAVA : Linux has Java IDE "FreeBuilder", JccWarrior, Wipeout,
	Vibe, SunMicrosystem Java Workshop for Linux, SuperMojo, JForge, Emacs

JDE. Microsoft Mail/Lotus CCMAIL : Linux has ZMail(GUI), exmh, umt, xfmail(GUI),

        kmail, xmh, xcmail, soma, privtool, pine, etc..

Microsoft Scheduler/Personal productivity tools: See the Personal productivity

        Tools at http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html

Microsoft Notepad/Wordpad : Linux has CRisp, vi, NEdit, Jed, EMACS, Joe,

        Elvis and several hundreds more... on cdrom

Microsoft Desktop Publishing : Linux has SGML tools, LaTex, Jade,

        JadeTex, FrameMaker, Corel office, Applixware, StarOffice.

Netscape Calendar Server: CyberScheduler from http://www.crosswind.com

AutoCAD CAD package: Linux has AC3D package at

        http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ac3d.html

Adobe Photoshop : Linux has GIMP at http://www.gimp.org and also on linux cdrom

                http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html

Intersolv PVCS (Source Code Control System): Linux has RCS and CVS SCCS.

Progamming languages : Linux has C, C++, Java, Lisp, Fortran, Perl,

	Python, Pascal, Intel X86 assembler, awk, sed, korn shell, zsh, 
	bash, tcsh, Tcl/Tk, Prolog, Rexx, Smalltalk, SQL, yacc, flex,
	Ada, COBOL and hundreds more on cdrom.

Computer Games : Linux has Hundreds of computer games like chess, doom..
	on linux cdrom

Buy Linux cdrom (prices starts from $5 goes upto $400 U.S. dollars) from -

	http://www.lsl.com 
	http://www.cheapbytes.com
	http://linuxcentral.com/
	http://www.linuxmall.com/
	http://www.redhat.com
	http://www.suse.com
	http://www.caldera.com 

Technical support for linux sold at: prices range from $500 to $3,00,000
	http://www.caldera.com (Novell corporation company)
	http://www.redhat.com
	http://www.wgs.com
	http://www.suse.com
	Usenet groups comp.os.linux.* (Free technical support!!)
	

A single linux cdrom contains more than 1500 software packages! Purchase a Intel/AMD/Cyrix box for $600 (without microsoft windows/DOS) + $200 (monitor) from the local computer hardware store and save
$200 (or $800 NT) by avoiding Microsoft Windows95/NT! There are local hardware stores who sell bare computer hardware only WITHOUT any pre-loaded software or mail-order hardware without any MS Windows.

Try Linux once. It is a robust, powerful 32-bit OS. Ok,Ok,OK.. Before asking me any more questions please go to this site : http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO where there is peace and prosperity and where most intelligent people on this planet are crowded... Received on Tue Mar 31 1998 - 00:00:00 CST