Re: CDE2 platforms and availability (was CASE 5.1)

In article <CyoBvo.74p_at_ugc.ab.ca>, geoff_at_ugc.ab.ca (Geoff Coleman) writes...
>In article <398ass$2jb_at_dcsun4.us.oracle.com>,
>Dennis Moore <dbmoore_at_us.oracle.com> wrote:
>>...
>>CDE2 CASE will be available for Windows, NT, and "Windows95" (or 96 or ...).
>>We are investigating ways to make this release available on other GUI platforms
>>but at this point are not willing to commit to this.
>>...
> What this tells me, as someone who is currently evaluating case 5.1,
>is that if I buy CASE I will have to move any case work to Windows in 1/2
>a year. If I'm going to move CASE to that environment then why wouldn't I
>move all my development there? Why not you ask, because as far as I can
>tell the windows environment is not a stable development environment.
>...

Exactly - it doesn't make sense.

And for those of us that have spent $40,000 on non-Windows platforms?

For our production environment, we'd never consider deploying under Windows. Sure there are certain apps that lend themselves to Windows, but X is the only way to go in a control room which has a couple of dozen displays running.

I can't imagine regressing to developing on a PC again.

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