No necessarily.

You need to consider what the UI is and how it
gets deployed when running with *nix, including
the costs, support issues, and performance over
a WAN.

The *nix solution will be xwin...

Most end-users already have a win-box sitting
on their desks you have a built-in UI support
environment with *no* additional cost or s/w
deployment.

Now, if everyone removes win and installes linux
on their desktop then I would agree with you...

duane


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ric Merz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:53 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Keeping things in Cupertino
>
>
> And if you had taken your chances on Delphi instead of VB,
> today you could
> be cross platform with Linux using Delphi/Kylix.
>
> Ric - just having fun
>
>
> At 10:34 AM 11/28/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Duane Percox <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >
> >> Given our existing win based client software QSS wouldn't
> be pleased
> >> if that were to happen and the preferred client became a mac.
> >> Unless, someone ports VB to the mac...
> >
> >Well, that's what you get when you go with a proprietary solution.
> >
> >
> >Sorry, I couldn't resist!  :-)
> >
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> >I WANT MY MPE!
> >
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