Ron Seybold writes:

>>At 12:12 PM 8/9/2001 -0700, David T Darnell wrote:
>>  >Running Microsoft applications on a non-Windows platform would be OK, but
>>  >I'd like to here about survival sans Microsoft as well.
>
>Here at the 3000 NewsWire we manage our entire business  -
>financials, inventory, circulation and production of Web pages and
>print - without any Windows servers. We use Apple's Macs. As close as
>we get is a Windows emulator that runs on one of our Macs, extremely
>infrequently. We do use Microsoft's applications: Excel, Word,
>PowerPoint and Explorer. Like or not these are commonplace, and we've
>found life much easier in being able to accept and generate MS-app
>files.

We do almost the same here. I use Windows only for software development
and for working with files that clients send us. About 90% of my time
Windows time is spent in either Microsoft Visual Studio or Qedit for
Windows.

What I'd really like is Qedit for Windows for Macintosh :-).

-- Bruce


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